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The Rev. Ezra Stiles, S.T.D., LL.D. 

President Yale College, 1 777-1 795. 
Son of the Rev. Isaac Stiles. 
Born in North Haven Nov. 29, 1727. 
Died in New Haven May 12, 1795. 



NORTH HAVEN 



IN THE 



NINETEENTH CENTURY 



B flftemoiial. 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



^ TWENTIETH CENTURY COMMITTEE. 



COMPILED BY 

SHELDON B. THORPE. 

lUNE I, 1901. 







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INTRODUCTION. 

The Town of North Haven, at its annual meetin.s;-, in October, 
1897, appointed a committee to consider the advisabihty of recog- 
nizing in a pubhc manner the arrival of the twentieth century. 
This connnittee V\as chosen as follows : 




lv(ii:i:i; I ( ). Eaton. 

Chairman Twentieth Century Committee. 

Ex-Member General Assembly. 

Assistant Dairy C(iinniissi(iac-r State of Connecticut. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 



District No. i 

" 3 

" 4 

" 7 



— Joseph E. Bishop (Resigned). 

— Robert N. Barnes. 

— Robert O. Eaton. 

— Shi^ldon B. Thorpe. 

— Jared B. Bassett. 

— Frederic E. Jacobs. 

— Joseph Pierpont. 

— George B. Todd. 



The following- year they reported that no special interest was 
being felt anywhere. The report was accepted, and the com- 
mittee continued. 

During the summer of 1900 the members organized tempo- 
rarily, adding others to their number, until a working force of 
thirty had been secured. Permanent organization was then 
efifected, and the sub-committees arranged as follows : 

Robert O. Eaton, President. 

L. P. Tuttle, Secretary. 

Joseph Pierpont, Treasurer. 

Sheldon B. Thorpe, Historian. 

sub-coj^imittees. 



On Literary Exercises. 
^ Edward L. Linsley, 
Edgar A. Hemmingway, 
L. P. Tuttle, 
Hobart Blakeslce, 
George J. ]\Ierz. 

On Printing and Publication. 
Sheldon B. Thorpe, 
Romanta T. Linsley, 
George H. Cooper, 
Michael E. Burke, 
Robert N. Barnes. 



On Finance. 
Joseph Pierpont, 
Henry D. Todd, 
Frank L. Stiles, 
A. B. Brockett, 
D. Walter Patten. 

W. E. Dickerman, 



On Reception of Guests. 
Hubert F. Potter, 
Clarence N. Frost, 
Herbert P. Smith, 
Dr. R. B. Goodyear, 
George B. Todd. 

On Music. 
Anson B. Clinton, 
Frederic H. Stiles, 
C. D. Rol)inson, 
Isaac E. ]\Iansfield, 
David L. CHnton. 

On Amusements and Parade. 
' Solomon F. Linsley, 
Frederic E. Jacobs, 
Jared B. Bassett, 
N. H. ALnrks, 
W. B. Roberts. 
Collation. 

Staff of Ladies and Assistants. 



1 Died October i8, igoo. Succeeded by the Rev. William Lusk. ^ Died March 13, igci. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 5 

A plan was proposed which provided for a commemoration of 
the opening of the century, and also for the observance of an 
"Old Home Week/' in which the town could call home from 
abroad her sons and daughters for a reunion which should be 
notable. This project was adopted by the town at its annual 
meeting in 1900, and an appropriation made to be used, if 
necessary, into carrying its provisions into effect. The following 
general outline was agreed upon : 

Twentieth Century. 

Sunday, December 30, 1900. — Special service in the Congrega- 
tional, J^piscopal and Baptist Churches at 11 o'clock a. m. 
Sermons to be published in the Town Souvenir. 

Sunday Evening, December 30, 1900. — Praise Service of Old 
Time Music in Congregational Church. 

•''Monday Evening, December 31, 1900. — Musical or Dramatic 
Entertainment in Memorial Hall. Admission. 

Monday Evening, December 31, 1900. — 12 o'clock m. Cannon 
salute and ringing of bells. 



Old HoiNiE Week. 

Tuesday, June 4, 1901. — Dramatic or ]\Iusical Entertainment in 

Memorial Hall, in evening. Admission. 
Thursday, June 6, 1901. — Public Celebration. 

Sunrise — Salute. 

9 a. m. — Civic Procession. 

II a. m. — Historical Address in Congregational Church and 
issue of Souvenir Volume 

12.30 p. m.- — Dinner in Memorial Hall. 

2 p. m. — Public meeting in Congregational Church. 

Sunset — Salute. 

^ ^; ^ :J: ;J: ^ sjs 

The preparation of tliis volume was early determined upon 
as a brief memorial of the town at the close of the 19th century. 



2 Postponed to Februaiy 15, 1901. 



6 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

It is dedicated to the cominof generations in North Haven. If 
at the opening of the next century some of its copies should still 
be found in the homes of this people, it will not have been issued 
in vain. It is by no means the ideal century record, but space 
and expense have forbidden a more extended work, and much 
has necessarily been omitted of equal value with that published. 

Its preparation has been a work of pleasure, because of the 
hearty co-operation of all concerned. Its illustrations of scenes 
and buildings are mainly taken from photographs by Sheldon 
B. Thorpe, Edward Heaton and Herbert Smith. The portrait 
work is that of New Haven artists. 

It is due to the Hartford Engraving Co., which has done the 
entire engraving work of the volume, to say that in strong com- 
petition with New York and Boston parties, it secured the con- 
tract. 

The printing and binding have been entrusted to The Price, 
Lee & Adkins Co., of New Haven, who have acquitted them- 
selves most creditably. 

May this volume prove the first of a "century series." 

Twentieth Century Committee. 

North Haven, Conn., June i, 1901. 



Note.— The following changes not otherwise noted on page 4, were 
made during the sessions of the general committee: 

Mr. George J. Merz, transferred to Committee on Reception. 
Mr. D. Walter Patten, transferred to Committee on Reception. 
Mr. Herbert P. Smith, transferred to Committee on Parade to fill 
vacancy occasioned by death of S. F. Linsley. 

Mr. Marcus D. Marks, appointed to Committee on Finance. 



THE GOVERNMENT 

OF THE 

TOWN OF NORTH HAVEN 



OFFICERS ELECTED BY BALLOT OCTOBER 1, 1900. 

TOWN CLERK. 

L. PEET TUTTLE. 

SELECTMEN. 

D. WALTER PATTEN, 
CLARENCE N. PROST, 
ERNEST R. BROCKETT. 

BOARD OF RELIEF. 

CHARLES H. THORPE, 
NATHAN H. MARKS, 
HOBART BLAKESLEE. 

ASSESSORS. 

LEWIS I. FOWLER, 
FREDERIC E. JACOBS. 

REGISTRARS. 

E. D. S. GOODYEAR, 
LUZERNE A. BROCKETT. 

CONSTABLES. 

REUBEN HARRISON, 
HENRY F. CORF, 
SAMUEL BANNELL, 
WILBUR E. BEACH, 
CHARLES L. ROSE, 
ANDREW HALLORAN, 
ALPHEUS J. LARKINS. 



8 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 




D. Walter Patten. 

[See page 133.] 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 




William E. Dickekman. 

ExChainnan Republican Town Committee. 
Member General Assembly, igoi. 



L. PeET TUTl'LE. 
Town Clerk. 



Clarence N. Frost. 

Selectman. 




I^KNKST R. BK(i(kl-.l 1. 
Selectman. 



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BOARD OF EDUCATION. 

JULIAN W. TUTTLE, 
GEORGE H. GOOPER, 
O. SHERWOOD TODD. 

AGENTS TOWN DEPOSIT FUND. 

ROBERT W. SMITH, 
JOSEPH PIERPONT, 
SHELDON B. THORPE. 

TREASURER. 

ROMANTA T. LINSLEY. 

AUDITORS. 

SHELDON B. THORPE, 
ISAAC E. MANSFIELD. 

COLLECTOR OF TAXES. 

LEWIS I. FOWLER. 

GRAND JURORS. 

GEORGE J. MERZ, 
PER A. OLSEN, 
WILLIAM B. ROBERTS, 
WILBUR A. LANE, 
LUZERNE A. BROCKETT, 
FREDERIC E. JACOBS. 

OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE SELECTMEN. 

MEASURERS OF WOOD. 

JOSEPH PIERPONT, 
WILLIAM P. LEETE, 
SHELDON B. THORPE, 
ANDREW F. AUSTIN. 



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Nathan H. Marks. 

Veteran of the Civil War. 
Member of Board of Relief. 



Lewis I. Fowler. 

Ta,\ Collector. 
Assessor. 




HOBART Bl.AKESLEE. 
Ex-Selectman. 
Member of Board of Relief. 



Fkeueric E. Jacohs. 

E.\-Selectman. 
Assessor. 



NOR IH HAVEN IX THK NINETEENTH CENTURY. 
VVF.IGHERS. 

MARCUS S. DOOIJTTLE. 
DAVIU L. CLINTON, 
GEORGH W. DAINS, 
FRANK L. STILHS 

POUND KHHPHR. 

WILLIAM H. TODD. 

SKAl.ER. 

FREDERIC L. MANSFIELD. 

GAUGHRS. 

MARCUS S. DOOLITTLE, 
FRANK R. CLINTON, 
WILLARD A. ROBINSON. 

HAYWARDS. 

CHARLES M. BARNES, 
C. H. THORPE, 
WILSON E. GOODSELL. 

PACKERS. 

JARED B. BASSETT, 
HENRY H. ROBINSON. 



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ROMANTA T. LiNSLKY. 
Ex-Town Agent and Selectman. 
Town Treasurer. 



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Gkorgk J. Mkkz. 

\V. M. Corinthian Lodge, F. & A. M. 

Grand Jnror. 

Station Agent N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. 




Isaac E. Mansfield. 

Ex-Seiectinan. 
Auditor. 



WllJJAM l;. K(i|;l'.KIs. 
Grand Juror. 



THE PRAISE SERVICE. 

The following order of exercises for the Union Praise Service 
was listened to by one of the largest audiences ever assembled in 
the Congregational Church. The other places of worshij) were 
closed that evening. 

UXION PRAISE SERVICE 

in the 

Congregational Church 

by the 

CONG., EPISCOPAL AND BAPTIST SOCIETIES, 

Sunday E-z'ciiiiig, December jo, ipoo, at /.jo o'clock. 

Erkderic H. Stiles, Director. 
A. B. Clinton, Organist. 

program:\ie. 

Voluntary. — Instrumental. 

Invocation, . . . The Rev. Charles \\'. Jackson. 

Hymn 142. — "Old Hundred." 

Devotional Services. . . The Rev. Louis A. Parsons. 

Gregorian Chant. — "Bonum Est." Hynmary, Page 501. 

Introductory, . . . The Rev. William G. Lathrop. 

Hymn 515. — "Ortonville," (lined out). Hymnar}-, Page 256. 

Hymn 324. — "China." 

Hymn 125. — "Geneva." 

Hymn 129. — "Dundee." Hymnary, Page 65. 

Hymn 597. — "Balerma." Hymnary, Page 65. 

Hymn 320. — "Coronation." Hymnary, Page 162. 

Gloria in Excelsis. — Buck. 

Hymn 377. — "Lenox." H}ninary, Page 189. 

Hymn 770. — "Boylston." 

Anthem (Modern). — "Praise Ye The Father." — Gounod. 

The Church will be open at 6.30 o'clock p. m. The public 
made welcome. Seats free. 



lO 



NORTH HAVEN IN THK MX F.TKEN'l'H CENTURY. 



It would be ciifficult to sa.\' which selection ])lease(l the audi- 
ence best. Each number was chosen after careful consideration, 
and stood out distinct in the progress of church music. The 
listeners were carried along, step by step, from tlie simple 
Gregorian chant of our fathers to the tlori<l nuisic of the present 
day. 

The earlier named hymns on the programme— "China," 
"Dundee," "Geneva," "Ortonville" — were sung without accom- 




Fkederic II. Stiles. 

Musical Director and Organist 
Congregational Church. 

paniment. The latter tune attracted special attention because of 
its novelty, it being "lined out," as in the days when hynni and 
tune l)Ooks were scarce ; that is, the Rev. Mr. Lathrop first read 
a line, which was sung by the choir, then another line read and 
sung until the hymn was finished. The words used were the well 
known lines, beginning: 

"Majestic sweetness sits enthroned 
Upon the Saviour's brow." 



NORTH HA\>:N in THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 



17 



The singing of the hymn "Coronation" aroused the aiuHence 
to the highest fervor. Along the gallery-front of the chureh were 
displayed in groups the Hags of the leading nations of the world, 
and as the volume of sound swelled up 

"Let every kindred, every tribe 
On this terrestrial ball, 
To Him all majesty ascribe. 
And crown Him Lord of all," 

these colors seemed to ripple in the breeze as if echoing assent 
to the homage of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 

The drilling of the large chorus was done by Frederic H. 
Stiles, to whose taste and efficiency the service owed its wonderful 
success. 




Anson B Clinton. 

E.\-Member General Assembly. 

Organist, and dealer in musical instruments 



NO 



RTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



The following- persons assisted: 

Anson B. Clinton, Organist. 



Tenors. 
David L. Clinton, 
Edgar Stiles, 
Le Roy Stiles. 
Frank C Squires- 

Basses. 
Theophilus Eaton, 
Edward Heaton, 
Eugene Prisley, 
Leslie Munson. 
Ellsworth Smith, 
Mr. Sperry. 

Sopranos. 

Miss Bessie Ives, 
Miss Glenna Bigelow, 
Mrs. Anson B. Clinton, 



Mrs. Frank North, 
Mrs. Florence Blakslee, 
ISlrs. A. E. Swill. 

Alios. 
Miss Charlotte Barnes, 
Mrs. Theophilus Eaton, 
Miss Emily Pierce, 
IMiss Martha Smith, 
Miss Ruth Smith, 
Miss Leila Stiles. 

Orehcstra. 
H. Wilson Clinton, 
Isaac E. Mansfield, 
Dwight Robinson, 
Irving ^lansfield. 



SERMON 

I'REACHEIJ IN THE 

NORTH HAVEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 

liY 

The Rev. William G. Lathrop, 
December 30, 1900, at 11 a. m. 

Text Psalm 145:4. "One generation shall laud thy 
works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts." 

One hundred years ag'o day after to-morrow, the Rev. Ben- 
jamin Trumbull, D.D., then pastor of this Church, delivered in 
the old meeting house uf)on the green what he was pleased to call 
a century sermon. To"-day we are summoned to enter into the 
inheritance of the saints, here to recount the blessings of God, 
hiCre to declare his mighty acts for the generation following. So 
let us review briefly the century which is closing, a task altogether 
too large to be adecjuately accomplished in the time at our dis- 
posal. 

First let me speak of the Church : and fittingly so of the oldest 
organization in town (First Ecclesiastical Society, organized 
1716. First action recorded, November 2, 1716. Congregational 
Church organized, April or 'Slay, 171 8. Incorporated, Novemlx-r 
29, 1897), an organization which precedes by 68 years the incor- 
poration of the town, and with only one companion, the Epis- 
copal Cluu'ch, of course with the Ecclesiastical vSocieties 
connected with them, the only local organization of any kind that 
spans the entire centtu-}-. Dr. Trumbull preached his century 
sermon in the second building owned by the Society. It meas- 
ured 65 feet by 45^ and stood aljout half way between the ilag 
stafY and the south line of the old l)urying ground, or a himdred 
and fifty feet south and half as much west of the center of the 
green ; about in front of the road which runs at the north of this 
building. The centtu-v has seen the erection and extension of the 



20 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 




Photo by Heatc.n. CONGREGATIONAL CuURCH (THIK1> BUILDING). 

Erected 1S35. 

brick edifice in which we are now assembled, used for the first 
time, July i, 1835. Its dimensions were 62 feet by 45, extended 
in 1 87 1, 16 feet, with an addition of 18 feet for organ and choir. 
At this time, too, the basement was fitted for the use of the Sun- 
day School. The chapel formerly used for a schoolhouse, 70 feet 
south of this building, has been owned by the Ecclesiastical 
Society since it was transferred to it by Mr. Reynolds, November 
26, 1892. In the Spring of 1894 the commodious parsonage was 
erected at a cost with the land of $5,000. This meeting house is 
the third which has been owned by the Society ; the first serving 
as a place of worship for 21 years. This stood 10 rods to the 
north of the second edifice, being located near the southwest 
corner of the old burying ground. The second building, the loca- 
tion of which has been given, was in use from May, 1742, till 
June 28, 1835 — 93 years. Undoubtedly the opening century will 
see the erection of a fourth meeting house, more commodious, if 
no larger, than our present one, this having served us for 65 and 
a half years. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 21 

Tlie menil:»ershii) of the Church has fluctuated l)et\veen quite 
wide hniits. If was 137 in 1760, at the beginnint;^ of Dr. Trum- 
bull's pastorate, probably falling- materially below one hundred 
in 1820, when he closed his work. Under Mr. Boardnian and 
Dr. Griggs the Church re\ived and gained the strength which it 
has since never lost. Of the four years of largest accessions, three 
fall within this ])eriod, 63 in 1821, 159 in 1831, and 130 in 1840. 




The Rev. Whj.iam G. Lathrop. 

Pastor Congregational Church, 1893-1901. 
Resigned April i, 1901. 
Installed Pastor Congregational Church in 
Shelton, Conn., April 4, 1901. 



To the quickening of the life of the Church under these able 
leaders we owe this meeting house. Of the army, 354 strong, 
received in the decade 1831-40. onl}- 12 remain upon our roll. 
As far as is known 5 others are living. These alone can tell the 
story of those stirring years. After the large additions in 1840 
probably the membership of the Church reached the highest 
figure in its history, ai^iprodching, if not exceeding, 400. We mav 



22 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

not conclude, however, that its work is complete, for except the 
decade mentioned, 1831-40, no other has seen a larger number 
received into the Church than the decade just closing ; two of the 
ten years during which the additions have exceeded 35 having 
fallen within this period. Of the years of special blessing, Mr. 
Reynolds wrote toward the close of his ministry: "Few 
Churches, it is believed, have experienced more or greater sea- 
sons of refreshing than have been enjoyed by this Church since 
the beginning of the century." The years when more than 35 
were received are, 1821. 1831, 1840, 1837 — 39 received, 1858 — 52, 
1868—65, 1876 — 51, 1880—38, 1895—36, 1896 — 36. Altogether 
there have been 1240 entries of those received since 1800, of whom 
669 were added in the ten years just referred to. The present 
membership is 302. Of the 16 names mentioned by Dr. Trum- 
bull as the earliest settlers of the town, 1 1 are still found upon our 
roll ; Barnes, Bishop, Blakeslee, Bradley, Brockett, Cooper, 
Eaton, Jacobs, Thorpe, Todd, Tuttle. Of the 38 family names 
mentioned by him as constituting the Church in 1760, 18 still are 
found upon our roll ; those already mentioned and Bassett, Frost, 
Goodyear, Mansfield, Pierpont, Sackett, Smith. 

During the first five decades the number received varied from 
28 in 181 1-20 to 354 in 1831-40. In the last five decades the 
extremes have been 100 in 1861-70, and 136 in 1851-60, and the 
same number 189 1 -1900. The number received in the two half 
centuries is nearly the same, 629 the first half. 611 the second. 
This steady, persistent, regular growth of the later years is far 
more healthful and desirable than the spasmodic action of the 
earlier time. The same healthy condition appears to prevail in 
the varied activity of the Church, no abnormal grow^th, nor fatal 
losses. The Church has had an active and an honorable part in 
the development of the Sunday School, one being formed here 
in 1825, and since maintaining its activity. Undoubtedly much 
is due the Sunday School for the more healthful conditions pre- 
vailing in these later years. The Church has had since 1821 for- 
mal connection with the missionary movement of the centttry. 
There are now connected with the Church a Ladies' Benevolent 
Society, a Sunday School, a Society of Christian Endeavor, a 
Circle of King's Daughters, and among the younger members of 
the congregation a Circle of King's Daughters and Sons. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 23 

In the words of the able historian of the town, jNIr. S. B. 
Thorpe: "One will search in vain for an}'thing- startling' or sen- 
sational in the history of this ancient Church. Its record appears 
sing-ularly free from those internal dissensions wont to harass the 
early Churches. It has sought rather to keep quietly the faith 
of its founders, than to found new faiths for its followers. The 
last quarter century has brought about more chang'es in its policy 
than occurred in all its former history. Among- the more radical 
of these may be mentioned the recommendation that its constitu- 
ency as well as applicants for membership abstain from the use 
of intoxicating- liquors ; the privilege granted its female members 
to vote in the Church meeting-s ; the use of unfermented wine at 
the Lord's Supper ; the restriction to a five years of^cial term of 
its deacons (unless re-elected) ; and the abolition of the afternoon 
service." (North Haven Annals, pp. 376, 377.) To this catalogue 
of Air. Thorpe's, written in t8q2. we may add: the election of 
two additional deacons, making four in all, Alay 15, 1805; ^^""^ 
revision of the covenant and confession of faith, January 21, 
1897, neither having been materially changed since the organiza- 
tion of the Church ; the incorporation of the Church, November 
29, 1897, together with its more complete organization by the 
adoption of a full set of rules for its government, December 15, 
1897; the adoption of a new and more complete hymnal, first 
used. September 4, 1898: and finally in this closing year of the 
century the payment of the debt incurred at the building of the 
parsonage. 

Thus has God blessed his servants as they have endeavored to 
let their light shine. Well has been maintained the succession of 
the saints ; the family of God has been full of prevailing life and 
power. With a membership nearly or quite three times as large 
as at the beginning of the century, although the population of the 
town is less than twice as large, with a plant worth $20,000, four 
times as much as was that of 1800, the Church may surely face 
courageously the opening years assured that the Lord Jehovah 
our Guide in the past will still lead us in green pastures and by 
still waters. God grant it ! 

This is the good seed of the kingdom taking root in this com- 
munity, bearing fruit for the blessing of the town and for the re- 



24 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

deinption of the world. What of the surrouiuHng vine}'ard ? Of 
the town itself little need here be said. It has remained through 
the century much as it was at the beginning", largely a settlement 
of farmers. Until recently the stream of immigration from 
Europe had touched the town but lightly : the stream that has 
poured nearly ten millions upon the land in the last twenty years ; 
the stream which has made half of New Haven, three-fourths of 
New Britain of foreign birth or parentage. Now, however, in 
increasing numbers those who understand how to live more 
economically are displacing the native stock upon the farms 
This change is likely to continue, immigrants occupying the 
farms in the outlying districts, with the residential portions of the 
town more thickly built. 

The changes which the nation at large has seen in these stir- 
ring years of growth and of activity have affected the life of the 
quieter towns. Many pioneers have gone from here to other 
States. The quota sent to the War of '6i-'65, the veterans still 
remaining among us, the knowledge that so soon we have repre- 
sentatives in the Philippines show that North Haven has been in 
close touch with national movements. 

The people have ever been here whom we could help and save. 
They will be here. North Haven is not a dying town. For the 
sake of those who are coming among us, for the sake of those 
who will come, we must gird up our loins, be faithful and strong. 
We may ponder and pray how best to bring to the light, how 
most effectively to save from ignorance, sin and death, those who 
come to dwell among us from other lands, of other tongues. This 
problem pressing hard upon some communities will appeal to us 
more and more imperatively in the coming days. Our fathers 
in the name of God entered in and possessed the land. We must 
lead to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world, 
for our own salvation as well as for theirs, those whom we have 
invited to enter with us into this goodly heritage. 

This goodly heritage ! We cultivate our bit of a larger vine- 
yard. The line of settlements along the Atlantic Coast of a hun- 
dred years ago has become a mighty empire girdling half the 
globe. Dr. Trumbull remarked that the population of the 
United States in iSoo w^as six millions, a liberal estimate; more 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 25 

nearly 5.300,000. rinla(k'l])liia with 66,000, and New York witli 
60,000 were the largest and richest cities on the Western hemi- 
sphere. He ventured a prediction, basing his calculation upon 
the fact that the population had doubled once in 25 years, that in 
1900 the population would be 96,000,000. The increase has not 
been at the rate accepted by Dr. Trumbull, for we are but 75,000,- 
000. But whatever may have been prophesied as to our growth 
in numbers, the extension of territory over which the stars and 
stripes should wave could not have been dreamed of. Beginning 
the century with Vermont, Iventucky and Tennessee added to the 
original 13 states, embracing only the territory east of the Missis- 
sippi and north of Florida, about 825,000 square miles, the 
national domain has expanded to our present 45 states, with the 
territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Indian Ter- 
ritory, with the District of Columbia, together with Alaska, 
Hawaii, the Philippines and Porto Rico, over 3,600,000 square 
miles ; one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ; four times 
as large territoriallv, and including our island possessions, 15 
times as many people, as a hundred years ago. 

In these days of debate and conflict over the latest addition 
to our opportunity and responsibility we may not forget that it 
was urged that Jefiferson exceeded his authority in the purchase 
of Louisiana, that Texas was at first refused admission into the 
I'nion, that Daniel Webster is reported to have said, apropos of 
the claim to Washington and Oregon, that if it would cost one 
penny or the raising of his right hand to retain this territory he 
would not authorize the expenditure nor make the exertion. 
There have been ever those who shrank from the enlarged duty 
and the increased responsibility incurred in these successive ad- 
ditions to our domain. But argue as we may, the fact remains 
that thus has the territory extended over which our flag now 
flies : over the fairest land the sun shines upon, over a realm the 
most extended and best fitted to sustain a large and wealthy pop- 
ulation of any now owning one government. 

And with this groAvth in territory and in population has come, 
too, an increase in wealth, the most marvellous the world has ever 
seen, until now we are the richest nation on the face of the globe. 
In 1800 our national wealth was estimated at two thousand mil- 



26 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

lions ; now it is a himdrecl thousand millions, a gain of fifty-fold. 
And the increment is continuing" at a rate which is beyond all 
precedent. Our manufacturers and our traders are levying" tri- 
bute in growing measure upon all the nations of the earth. 

Thus has God enlarged our borders and filled the land with 
the finest of the wheat. But w'ith these additions to our posses- 
sions comes increased obligation. To whomsoever much is 
given, of him shall much be recjuired. In accepting" the gift we 
declare our duty. And men, other nations, are calling us to 
account, and even as God, will hold us responsible. To hide our 
talent in a napkin means shame and loss. 

I say other nations are holding us to an account. When the 
century opened the colonies were struggling to their feet. The 
experiment of a people governing themselves was looked upon 
with fear and with suspicion. It took the second defeat of 
1812-15 to bring England to some reasonably adequate idea of 
what the Revolutionary War meant. It was only after the Mexi- 
can War of 1846-47 that the Republic can"ie to be honored on its 
own continent. The Civil War of 1861-65 revealed to the world 
power and resource of which there had been little thought. 
While the S])anish W^ar of 1898 showed all the nations of earth 
that the United States had a sufficient reason for its existence 
and possessed ability of which no one had dreamed. From 
being of such little consequence among the nations as to be 
reckoned hardly worthy of a place among them at the beginning 
of the century we have come to occupy a position among the very 
foremost powers, to take a place in the world's action worthy of 
the most exalted and strongest peoples. 

Into the life of the world we have entered, for better or for 
worse, for the blessing of the world by means of the power God 
has given us, or for the condemnation of ourselves, otir loss and 
overthrow. And into such a world at such a time ! Well has 
P)ishop A. C. Coxe, of the Episcopal communion, written : 

"We are h\ing, we are dwelling 
In a grand and awful time ; 
In an age on ages telling, 
To be living: is sublime. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 27 

Worlds are charging — heaven behokhng ; 

Thou hast but an hour to fight ; 
Love's pure banner now unfolding, 

On — right onward for the right. 

From the crimes that men are crushing. 

\\'ar's dire curse and slavery's wrong. 
To deliver him, now rushing, 

Arm thee well — be strong^be strong. 

Fear not ! spurn the wordling's laughter ; 

Friendship's favor trample thou ; 
Thou shalt find a long hereafter 

To be more than tempts thee now. 

Oh ! let all the soul within you, 

For the truth's sake go abroad! 
Strike ! let every nerve and sinew 

Tell on ages — tell for God." 

The sun has never shone upon a century more full of promise 
than that which begins the day after to-morrow. Never before 
have the forces of the kingdom had such momentum or such 
power. No century can show such triumphs of the cross as the 
one just closing. It has seen the foreign mission movement 
starting with perhaps 7 societies, 170 missionaries, with an in- 
come of $250,000, reach a maximum of 200 organizations, 13,000 
laborers, with 71,000 native helpers and an income of seventeen 
millions ; with a record of a larger number rescued from the dark- 
ness of idolatry, paganism or savagery (1,300,000) than the dis- 
ciples could count as converts at the close of the first century of 
Christianity. Under the auspices of these consecrated and able 
v.-orkers it has come about that the Bible, which in 1800 had been 
translated into 34 languages and dialects, is now available in 411 
different tongues. At the beginning of the century two historic 
missionary meetings were held: "One with an attendance of 12 
in Widow Wallis' back parlor, the other with an attendance of 5 
under the haystack at Williams' College." Last year 15,000 
crowded day after day for eleven days, one of New York's finest 
halls that they might hear the latest news from the front. At the 



28 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

beginnint^' of the century an honorable Senator in Massachusetts' 
upper house opposed the granting ot a charter to a foreign mis- 
sionary society on the ground that we did not have enough 
reUgion at home to justify the exportation of any. At the close 
of the century our most honorable statesmen. William McKinley, 
Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin Harrison, 
offer convincing testimony to the value of missionary work, and 
in the strongest terms urge its wider extension. 

And this wonderful expansion in mission efTort has been 
backed by a still more wonderful growth at home. In 1800. 
365,000 Protestant evangelical communicants were enrolled in 
the United States ; now the number is 17,800,000. Besides these 
there are 10,000,000 Romanists and 1,000,000 Jews and others. 
Here is an increase of fifty-fold in evangelical membership, while 
the population has increased but fourteen times. The ratio of 
communicants to population has increased from i in 14^ in 1800 
to I in 4^ in 1900 — this of the evangelical Protestants alone. 

This gain has been well sustained even to the century's close. 
The number of additions to the various Churches the last decade 
is the largest of any of our history, approximating 4,000,000. 
And this increase, too, has been faster than the increase of popu- 
lation ; the ratio having increased from 100 communicants in 453 
in 1890, to 100 communicants in 428 in 1900. In the last two 
decades the number of Protestant Churches has increased from 
97,000 to 172,000, the number of ministers from 70,000 to 126,- 
000, the number of communicants from 10,000,000 to nearly 
18,000,000. 

And this is no empty array of figures. The gain on the part 
of the Church is more than nominal. The story of the religious 
movements of the century, of the development of the Sunday 
School, of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian As- 
sociations, of the Christian Endeavor Society, Epworth League 
and kindred organizations of the young people, the planting and 
the strengthening of our magnificent educational institutions, our 
rescue agencies, hospitals and asylums, the widening and the 
deepening of the temperance movement — these all derive their 
strength from and prove the vitality of the Christian faith. It is 
admitted to-day by many of those best fitted to judge, that while 



NORTH HAVEN IN THF: NINETEENTH CENTURY. 29 

cleanliness of body, mind and of estate may be next to godliness, 
it comes next after, not necessarily leading up to it. When a 
man is redeemed he is reformed. Individual salvation must pre- 
cede effective and enduring social betterment. 

Looking again, it may be noted that the amounts contributed 
for educational and benevolent purposes surpass all precedent. 
The total for '97 was $42,000,000 ; for 98, $38,000,000 ; for '99. 
$63,000,000; and for 1900 the figures of last year will be ex- 
ceeded, and the total will reach the highest sum ever recorded. 
This increase in gifts has far outrun the increase in wealth. In- 
cluding the home expenses of the Protestant Churches alone, 
$90,000,000, the total offerings for charitable, educational and 
benevolent purposes will approximate $200,000,000, an increase 
of a hundred-fold over the offerings of a century ago ; while the 
national wealth has increased but fifty-fold. 

Dr. Daniel Dorchester, our widely known and reliable relig- 
ious statistician, has recently said: "There has never been so much 
conscience, on so many subjects and among so many people as 
now. Public conscience prohibits more evils and enforces more 
obligations than ever before. No intelligent person standing in 
the light of the nineteenth century and beholding the great relig- 
ious movements of the age can doubt that Christianity is advanc- 
ing. Every year it is robing itself with more effulgence and 
pressing its blessed illumination upon new millions of earth's 
population." 

At the beginning of the century science and religion pursued 
parallel ways, mutually suspicious of each other. Then came a 
period of attack and conflict, each against the other, criticism and 
opposition. Now the end is near, the day of synthesis, of con- 
struction, of positive upbuilding and advance to a larger, saner, 
truer conception of God and of the universe. It is seen more and 
more clearly that God's revelation of himself in act and in word 
go hand in hand ; only as science and religion work together can 
a complete or a satisfactory conception of the universe be ob- 
tained. Alen have learned that in picking a flower to pieces the 
flower itself is destroyed and its beauty and fragrance disappear. 
Criticism, negation, never can reach the stars or understand a 
universe. Aftei the stupendous achievements of the century 
men are returning or they must return to the thought of old 



30 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

when painters and sculptors prayed as they worked, when the 
monks were chemists and mathematicians and astronomers, when 
it was known and confessed of all that only the pure in heart 
could read God's thoughts after him. 

In the larger movements of the life and thought of the cen- 
tury we may find signs of largest promise. Man has drawn 
nearer his fellow. Space has been annihilated. In 1800 it took 
8 weeks to cross the Atlantic in a sailing vessel. Now one can 
go from New York to Liverpool in 6 days. It took five months, 
from October 3, 1842, to March 3, 1843, ^or Marcus Whitman 
to ride from the Columbia River to Washington to save the 
Pacific Northwest to the Union. Now one can go from Boston 
to Seattle in 5 da\s. San Francisco is nearer New York than 
Boston was to Philadelphia. It took three days at utmost speed 
in 1815 to carry the news of Waterloo to London. The guns 
of Dewey's fleet in the harbor of Manila were hardly cool before 
the result of the battle was known all over our land. Thus have 
the people of China, thus have the savages of the islands of the 
sea become our near neighbors. 

And as we have looked into the face even of savage and of 
barbarian wc have discovered there the marks of a common 
humanity, the image of a conmion Father. From this recogni- 
tion has come the end of slavery generally countenanced a hun- 
dred years ago ; from this has dawned a larger liberty between 
man and man. We have come to think of other men even as 
they are as brothers, and to treat them so. The standing wrong 
of all the past centuries has been overcome and it is seen that 
governments exist for the sake of the governed, that rulers can- 
not safely oppress their subjects, that one nation cannot right- 
fully oppress another. lUit it remained for the closing years of 
the century to witness the largest fulfillment the world has yet 
known of the prophetic song of the angels at our Saviour's birth 
— Peace, peace, peace on the earth. A movement has now 
fairl}' begim which contains the ])ronfise of the dav when nation 
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn 
war any more. When the leading peoples of earth met at The 
Hague, May 18, 1899, to devise ways and means of bringing in a 
reign of equity and peace, the movement began which shall see 
the swords beaten into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. 



JNUKTH HAVEN IN THK NINETEENTH CENTURY. 3 1 

For the privilege of seeing the words of Psahnist reversed and 
the kings of the earth setting themselves, the rulers taking coun- 
sel together that our dailv [grayer may be answered, that his king- 
dom may come, that his will may be done on earth even as it is 
done in heaven ; for this we may well lift up our hearts and voices 
in gratitude and praise. This the crowning act of the centitrv, 
its most spectacular and momentous achievement, is the most 
realistic and impressive action since Jesus was born in Bethlehem 
of Judea, certifying to the brotherhood of man and the supremacy 
of the law of love. 

It is for us to note in this and in the other events of the cen- 
tur}' the way the Lord directs, the path in which He would have 
us go, and like Israel of old it is for us to follow the pillar of 
cloud by da\' and the pillar of fire by night, His manifest provi- 
dence, assured that even tiiough the way leads through the wil- 
derness, the end of faithful following, of consecrated service is the 
promised land, is an open and an abundant entrance into tlie rest 
and ']o\ of our Lord. 




Residence of Herbert P. Smith. 



MEMBERSHIP 



CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH/- 



lANUARY I, iQOi. 



Pastor. 
William G. Lathrop. 

Deacons. 

Albert A. Hyde, 1895-1903 i F. H. Brockett, 1895-1902 
Robert N. Barnes, 1895-1904 j Aaron Bassett, 1900-1905 

Clerk and Treasurer. 
F. H. Brockett, 1900-1902, 

Names included within brace are those of husband and wife. 
Names in italics indicate maiden name of woman. 



A 

Augur, Margaret E. Barnes 
Austin, Andrew F. } 

Austin, Charlotte P. Sfi7es \ 

B 

Bailey, Sarah Elizabeth Smith 
Barnard, Bertha J. 
Barnes, Charlotte L. 
Barnes, Lina Genevieve 
Barnes, Lucia M. Bower 
Barnes, Ella J. Shares 
Barrett, John B. ] 

Barrett, Adella A. Clough S 
Bassett, Adeline J. Blakeslce 
Bassett, Elizabeth A. Brockett 
Bassett, George Eli / 

Bassett, IMary Louise Bradley ) 
Bassett, Jared B. 



Bassett, Joel E. ) 

Bassett, Julia C. T/iorpe S 
Bassett, Loi'enzo N. 
Bassett, Lyman 
Bassett, Lyman F. \ 

Bassett, Emily J. Pierpont S 
Bassett, Mary E. 
Beach, Caroline C. Jones 
Beach, Celona E. 
Beach, Joel E. W. ) 

Beach, Elsie D. Bawni ) 
Beach, Wilbur E. ) 

Beach, Kate Maria Hillyer ) 
Bishop, Ann E. Chi'lds 
Bishop, Charlotte Thorpe. 
Blakeslee, Henry Merwin ) 

Blakeslee, Cornelia A. Andrews 1 
Blakeslee, Theodore M. 
Blakeslee, Wilbur D. ) 

Blakeslee, ]\Iary Alice Maynard ) 



♦ Manual issued February, igor. 
3 



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L_ 




Albekp a. Hyde. 

Veteran of the Civil War. 
Deacon, Congregational Church. 




Frederic H. Brockett. 

Clerk and Treasurer Congregational Church. 
Deacon, Congregational Church. 




Robert N. Barnes. 

Undertaker. 

Deacon Congregational Church. 



Aaron Bassett. 

Descendant of William Bassett, 

New Haven Colony, 1642. 
Deacop, Congregational Church. 



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35 



Blakeslee, Zerah T. } 

Blakeslee, Eliza A Tu/f/c \ 
Bower, Stephen H. / 

Bower. Caroline Osiiuui S 
Bradley, Anna Rowe 
Bradley, Clara Edilh 
Bradley, Frederic C ] 

Bradley, Ellen A. Marks S 
Brockett, Albert B. 
Brockett, Emma J. 
Brockett, Charlotte T. Bishop 
Brockett, Jennie Louise 
Brockett, Susan C. Heatoii 
Bruce, Annie B. 
Bruce, Christine 
Bruce, Edward B. ) 

Bruce, Christine Kilgoiir ) 
Bruce, Jennie Maud 
Bruce, Sarah J. Loiiiisbitry 

c 

Clinton, Burton D. 
Clinton, David L. ) 

Clinton, Fannie M. Vibberi^ 
Clinton, Lucj^A. Bis/iop 
Connley, John ] 

Connley, Martha Sainiders ^ 
Connley, Sarah M 
Cooper, George H. | 
Cooper,*Bessie L. Coe) 
Cooper, Homer L \ 

Cooper, Alice E. MonsonS 
Cooper, Marilla M 
Cooper, Sarah J. White 
Cooper. Warren 
Crowell, Franklin N. / 

Crowell, Maria A. J^eers ) 

D 

Desmond, Charles A. 
Desmond, Mary H. 
Desmond, Ralph O. \_ 

Desmond, K. E. Marihugh ) 
Dickerman, Robert E. 
Dickerman, Sarah E. B. 
Dickerman, William E. i 
Dickerman, Lillian Siioio f 



Doolittle, Isaac L. / 

Doolittle, Emily A. Smith S 
Doolittle, Nellie P. Clark 
Dunham, John J. ) 

Dunham, Grace Mae Thomas S 

E 

Eaton, Robert O. \ 

Eaton, Alice Granniss S 
Eaton, Jesse () 
Eaton, Theophilus 
Eliot, Mary Wyllys 
Elliott, Whitney \ 

Elliott, Emma Ben ton S 



Foote, CuUen B. ] 

Foote, Nancy M. Adams ) 
Fowler, Bess'e T. 
Fowler, Delia E. Clinton 
Fowler, Edward D. 
Fowler, Herbert L 
Fowler, Lewis L ) 

Fowler, Marthena A. TJiorpe \ 
Frost, Elinor A. CroK'ell . 
Frost, Fannie E Robinson 
Frost, Grace L Scranton 
Frost, J Henry \ 

Frost, Adeline Pierpont S 

G 

Gillette, Mary E. Brockett 
Goodsell, Jesse B. \ 

Good.sell, Charry E. Tncker S 
Goodsell, Wilson E. ) 
Goodsell, Fannie Beach) 
Goodyear, Julia Marks 
Goodyear, Robert B. 

H 

Heaton, Julius W. / 

Heaton, Olivia Linsley ) 
Hemingway, Edward M. ] 

Hemingway, Lucy A. Brockett ^ 
Hemingway, Frank W. / 

Hemingway, Elfrida B. Heaton S 
Hemingwa\-, Genevieve 



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Hemingway, Laura J. 
Hemingway, Willis B. | 

Hemingway, Betsey B Huntley ' 
Howarth, Ellen C. Bradley 
Howarth, Gertrude L. 
Hyde, Ella R Hall 
Hj'de, Lyman Munson ) 
Hyde, Elizabeth G. Hyde S 
Hyde, William Albert 

J 
Jacobs, Dora E. 
Jacobs, Jesse B. 
Jacobs, Maria E. Mansfield 

L 

Lane, Wilbur A. 
Lathrop. William G. \ 
Lathrop, Helen Spicer ) 
Leete, Mary E. I she 1 1 



Lehane, Jeremiah 
Linsley, Solomon F. J 

Linsley, Lucy A. Tracy S 
Lloyd, Mary Jane 

M 

Maginnes, Caroline Tjittle 
Mansfield, Fannie A. Birch 
Mansfield, Frederick L. 
Mansfield, Robert S. 
Mansfield, Zenas W. \ 

Mansfield, Mary P. Bradley S 
Marihugh, Emma G. 
Marks, Julia A. Eaton 
Marks, Martha A. Cooper 
Merrick, Adeline R. Brockeit 
Merz, George J. ) 

Merz, Adelaide Hartley S 
Miller, August B. 
Mix, Sarah Glo^'cr 




Photcj ill ISlll. 



Residence ok L. Peet Tuttle and Ka'ie L. Tutti.e. 

Built in 1837 as a Parsonage for the Rev. Leverett Griggs, Pastor of the Congregational Church. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



37 



Morse, Grace E. 
Morse, Herbert H. | 

Morse, Josephine M. S/urj^'c's f 
Morse, May H. Jl//.i 
Munson, Ezra G. 
Munson, Lilla B A/idr, 
Munson, James F. } 

Munson, Hattie Bishop S 



rcws S 



N 
Nettleton, Edwin 
Nettleton, Mary Ann Lee 
Nichols, Ellen H. Smith 
North, Frank B. 
North, Meta E. L ngt 



J 



k B. I 

E. UiiPer S 



o 

Orcutt, Payson B. ] 

Orcutt, Ellen A. Linsley S 



J 



Page, Sophronia Z('^'/<? 

Painter, Henry W. 

Painter, Alice F. Lord 

Palmer, Elizur H. 

Palmer, Emma A. Pag 

Pardee, George W. | 

Pardee, Emeline Jane BlakesleeS 

Patten, Mary B. Hyde 

Patten, Alarion T. 

Patten, D. Walter 

Patten, Erminie I. Emley 



R 



} 



Redfield, Charles 
Reynolds, Annie M. 
Reynolds, Carrie E. Biitteriuo}-t/i 
Richardson, Ervin H. 
Richardson, Mary \ 
Richardson, Sarah M. Suiith 
Riker, Emma B. Smith 
Roberts, Benjamin H. \ 

Roberts, Eliza H. Douglass J 
Roberts, Eva J. 
Roberts, William B. \ 

Roberts, Emma N. Butler S 
Rose, Lettie A. Doolittle 



S 

Sackett, Delia M. Young 
Scott, Frances A. Todd 
Sexton, Walter M. 
Shepherd, Roswell J. > 

Shepherd, Louise M. Linsley) 
Sherwood, Clarence B. } 

Sherwood, Grace L. Vihbert S 
Smith, Ada I. Goodyear 
Smith, Catharine A. 
Smith, Charles B. 
Smith, Edith B. 
Smith, Emanuel 
Smith, Alice V. Warner I 
Smith, Frances E. Broekett 
Smith, Frank L. \ 

Smith, Martha L. Culver S 
Smith, Grace A. Todd 
Smith, Hattie M. 
Smith, James Elton 
Smith, Oscar L. 
Smith, Robert W. ) 

Smith, Elizabeth H. B. Stiles \ 
Smith, Ruth 
Smith, Sarah Atwater 
Smith, Sarah Maria Neal 
Smith, William Hart } 
Smith, Edith C. VibbertS 
Squires, Bertha J. Bannell 
Squires, Cornelia M. Thorpe 
Stevens, Edwin B. ) 

Stevens, Gertrude L. Clinton S 
Stevens, Mariett Richards 
Stevens, William W. \ 

Stevens, Blanche L. Clinton ) 

T 

Thorpe, Arthur B. ) 

Thorpe, Mabel A Howarth S 
Thorpe, Charles H. 
Thorpe, Hannah C. Lewis 
Thorpe, Elmina Bassett 
Thorpe, Franklin S. ^ 

Thorpe, Catharine A Hovey ^ 
Thorjje, Georgiana L. Robinson 
Thorpe, Gertrude L. 



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Thorpe, Harriette L. 
Thorpe, Martha Smith 
Thorpe, Mary Ann 
Thorpe, Ruby V. 
Thorpe, Sheldon B. / 

Thorpe, Isabel J. Barnes S 
Thorpe, Walter F 
Todd, Elizabeth M. Gill 
Todd, George B \ 

Todd, Lillian W. Patten \ 
Todd, George H. 
Todd, George Henry \ 
Todd, Lydia Cliapnian f 
Todd, Henry D. 
Todd, John Hayden \ 

Todd, Josephine C. CJiency \ 
Todd, Louisa Jacobs 
Todd, Sereno B. \ 

Todd. Letitia N. Wiley 's 
Todd, William H. 
Turner, Charles N. / 

Turner, Ellen A. Barnes S 
Tuttle, Ella 



Tuttle, Emerett L. 

Tuttle, Emma J. 

Tuttle, Esther E. 

Tuttle, Harriet Bassett 

Tuttle, Ina Gertrude 

Tuttle, Julian W. )^ 

Tuttle, Charlotte E. Blake si ee^ 

Tuttle, Kate L. 

Tuttle, Leander Peet ] 

Tuttle, Emma G. Hurlburt f 

Tuttle, LoLiisa Maginnes 

Tuttle, Martha A. J ml son 

Tyler, Jane E. Hitll 

V 

Van Doren, William J. 
Vibbert, Margaret L. Clinton 
Vibbert, Stephen S. { 

Vibbert, Mary Louise Sniit/i S 



Warner. May J. 
Welch, May 



w 

Tuttle 




Parsonac.e of the First Ecclesiastical Society. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THF. NINETEENTH CENTURY 



39 



NON RESIDENT. 



lee \ 



Alger, Edith Goodyear 

Barnes, John F. 

Barnes, Grace A. Blakesle 

Barrett, Leon J. \ 

Barrett, Martha S. Hyde S 

Burnham, Harriette A. 

Davis, Esther y'fl'c/f/^.y 

Dowd, Merritt C. 

Hill, Mary Clarissa Hyde 

Jacobs, Harriet Ann Lincohi 

Lawrence, Harriet D. Andrews 

Maynard, Nellie M. 

Owen, William M. 

Pierpont, Byard A. \ 

Pierpont, Sarah A. Prescotf\ 



Robinson XL Burdette 
Smith, Fannie B. Rh/iardson 
Smith, Mary A. Ri\i^ers 
Thorpe, Clifford B. 
Thorpe, Henry L. ) 

Thorpe, Minnie E. ToddS 
Tuttle, Frances C. 
Van Doren, Emily M. Roberts 
Wright, Harriet A. Palmer 



SUMMARY. 



Males, 
Females, 



Total, 



114 

190 



304 



YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. 
Org-anized April 7, 1885. 
The Rev. William G. Lathrop, President. 
Miss Ina Gertrltde Tuttle, Secretary and Treasurer. 



Active Members. 

Barnard, ]\Iiss Bertha J. 
Bassett, Mrs. George E. 
Bormann, jNIiss Ottillie M. 
Bradley, ]\Iiss Clara E. 
Bruce, Miss Christine 
Bruce, INIiss Jennie M. 
Eliot, Miss Mary W. 
Gunn, Edward 
Howarth, Miss Gertrude 
Hyde, Mrs. Albert A. 
Hyde, William A. 
Jacobs, Miss Dora C. 
Lane, Edmund 
Leete, Miss Harriet L. 
Marihugh, Miss Emma G. 
Maynard, Miss Nellie M. 
Morse, Miss Grace E. 
Roberts, William B. 
Roberts, Mrs. William B. 



Roberts. Miss Eva J. 
Smith. Miss Edith B. 
Smith, [Miss Ruth 
Smith, George 
Squires, Mrs. Frank C. 
Stiles, Miss Clifford R. 
Thorpe, Arthur B. 
Thorpe, Mrs. Arthur B. 
Thorpe, Miss Harriette L. 
Thorpe, iNIiss Ruby V. 

Associate Members. 

Blakeslee, George D. 
Howarth, Raymond 
Hyde. Everett H. 
Lane, Walter 
Leete, George H. 
Roberts, jMiss Carrie 
Smith, Cullcn 
Smith, ^Irs. Alex. B. 



4° 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINEIEENTH CENTURY. 



LADIES' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF THE CONGRE- 

TIONAL CHURCH. 

Organized 182 1. 

Mrs. Henry M. Blakeslee, President. 

Miss Mary AVyllys Eliot, Secretary and Treasurer. 



Barrett, Mrs. John H. 
Barnes, INTrs. Robert N. 
Bassett, Mrs. Aaron 
Bassett, Mrs. George E. 
Bassett, Mrs. Joel E. 
Bishop, Mrs. Ann E. 
Blakeslee, Mrs. Zera T. 
Bower, Mrs. Stephen H. 
Bradley, Mrs. Frederic C. 
Brockett, Mrs. Frederic H. 
Clinton, Mrs. David L. 
Cooper, Mrs. George H. 
Doolittle, Mrs. Isaac L. 
Elliott, Mrs. Whitney 
Foote, Mrs. Cullen B. 
Fowler, Mrs. Lewis I. 
Fowler, Mrs. Willoughby E. 
Heaton, Mrs. Julius W. 
Hemingway, Mrs. Edward M. 
Lathrop, Mrs. William G. 
Lawrence, Mrs. Orrin 
Linsley, Mrs. Solomon F. 
Maginnis, Mrs. George B. 



Merz, Mrs. George J. 
Munson, Mrs. Ezra G. 
Nichols, Mrs. Ellen H. 
Orcutt, Mrs. Payson B. 
Reynolds, Mrs. John F. 
Scott, Mrs. Frances 
Shepherd, Mrs. Roswell J. 
Smith, Miss Catherine 
Smith, Mrs. Grace T. 
Smith, Mrs. Robert W. 
Smith, Mrs. Sarah N. 
Stevens, Mrs. Mariette 
Squires, Mrs. Cornelia 
Thorpe, Mrs. Elmina 
Thorpe. Mrs. Martha L. 
Thorpe, Mrs. Georgianna L. 
Thorpe, Mrs. Sheldon B. 
Todd, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Turner, Mrs. Charles N. 
Tuttle, Mrs. Harriett 
Tuttle, Miss Emerette L. 
Tuttle, Miss Kate L. 



KING'S DAUGHTERS, MIZPAH CIRCLE. 
Organized 1893. 
Mrs. William G. Lathrop, Leader. 
Miss Clara E. Bradley, Secretary. 
Mrs. Georgianna L. Thorpe, Treasurer. 



Augur, Mrs. Margaret E. 
Barnes, Miss Charlotte 
Barnes, Miss Genevieve 
Barnes, Mrs. Robert N. 
Bassett, ]\Irs. Benjamin S. 
Bidwell, Mrs. E. H. 



Bishop, Mrs. Ann E. 
Blakeslee, Miss Elizabeth 
Blakeslee, Mrs. Frederic W. 
Blakeslee, Mrs. Henry M. 
Cooper, Mrs. Homer L. 
Dickerman, ]\Irs. William E. 



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Dickerman, Aliss Sarah E. B. 
Doolittle, Mrs. Isaac L. 
Eaton, Miss Cora A. 
Eaton, Mrs. Robert O. 
Fowler, Miss Bessie 
Frost. Mrs. Clarence N. 
Gillette, Mrs. jNIerton 
Goodscll, Mrs. Wilson E. 
Heaton, Mrs. Julius W. 
Hemingway, Mrs. Edgar 
Hemingway, ]\Irs. Frank W. 
Hemingway, ]\Iiss Genevieve 
Howarth, Miss Gertrude L. 
Jacobs, Miss Jane A. 
Lawrence, ]\Irs. Orrin C. 
Linsley, Mrs. Grace M. 
Mansfield, Mrs. Zenas W. 
Marks, Mrs. Nathan H. 
Merz, Mrs. George J. 
Morse, INIrs. Herbert H. 
Munson, Mrs. Ezra G. 
Munson, Mrs. James F. 
Nichols, Mrs. Ellen H. 
Orcutt, Mrs. Payson B. 
Reynolds, Mrs. John F. 
Richardson, Miss ■Minnie I. 
Shepherd, Miss Esther 
Shepherd, Miss Alarguerite 
Shepherd, Mrs. Roswell J. 
Sherwood, Mrs. Clarence B. . 
Smith, Miss Edith B. 
Smith, ]Mrs. Frank L. 
Smith, Miss Catherine 
Stevens, Mrs. William W. 



Squires, Mrs. Cornelia 
Squires. Mrs. Frank C. 
Thorpe. Mrs. Arthur B. 
Thorpe, Miss Harriette 
Thorpe. Mrs. Sheldon B. 
Turner, Mrs. Charles N. 
Tuttle. Miss Ina G. 
Tuttle. Mrs. Julian W. 
Tuttle, Miss May 





Mks. William G. Lathrop. 



HAPPY HOUR CIRCLE OF KING'S DAUGHTERS 
AND SONS. 
Marguerite Shepherd, Leader. 
Grace A. Dickermax, Secretary. 

Borghia, Ernest 
Borghia, Joseph 
Hyde, Florence 
Lathrop, Henry 



Munson. Charlotte 
Nichols. Ralph 
North, Elsie 
Reynolds, Marion 



Mansfield. Ethel 
Mansfield, Genevieve 



Shepherd. Esther 
Sweet, Archie 



ORDER OF SERVICE AND SERMON 

AT 

UNION BAPTIST CHURCH, 

MONTOWESE, DECEMBER 30, 1900. 



ORDER OF SERVICE. 

Orchestra Music. 

Invocation. 

Responsive Reading. — Ps. 45. 

Anthem. — "Our Nation, O Lord." 

Scripture Reading. — Mk. IV. 

Prayer. 

Hymn 502. — "How firm a foundation." 

Announcements. 

Sermon. 

Hymn 517. — "The Church's one foundation." 

Benediction. 



Sermon preached in Union Baptist Church, jNIontowese, De- 
cember 30, 1900, by the Rev. Charles W. Jackson. 

So is the Kingdom of God, as if a man should cast 
seed upon the earth; and should sleep and rise night and 
day and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth 
not how. The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, 
then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. — Mk. IV, 26 28. 

In uttering a parable like this, Jesus did not mean to teach 
that men have nothing whatever to do m the way of promoting 
growth in themselves and others. He would not so encourage 
men in the vices of indolence, indifference and thoughtless 
securit}' to whicli tliey are prone. But W'hy speak a parable which 
even seems to look that wav? It would seem that it was to check 



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43 



vices of a different description to which some men are prone. 
Active, devoted laborers are tempted to exag'£2:erate their own 
importance as instruments. They are apt in a 1his_\-1)0(1v spirit 
to interfere when it were wiser to stand still and see God work ; 
they are prone, too, to despondency if they see not immediate 
results ; and to impatience when they discover how slowly s^rowth 
in the Kimjdom o-oes on toward its final consunmiation. 




The Rev. Charles \V. Jackson. 

Pastor Union Baptist Cluirch. 

This despondence and impatience are decidedly present 
to-day, and I am glad of the occasion which the opening- of the 
twentieth century afifords for emphasizing the growth of Chris- 
tianity or the Kingdom of God during the last one hundred years. 
And I am also grateful to the Celebration Committee for the 
prominence which they are giving to the religious element in the 
development of the century. 

It is our purpose this morning to touch but superficially and 
of necessity in so short a time, most briefly some of these features 
of Christian dcvel<)])ment. 



44 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

I cannot see how it could ever be doubted that it has been a 
century of spiritual and religious growth. To become confirmed 
in this opinion one has only to step back into the chilly atmos- 
phere of the eighteenth century and view its stagnant life. The 
warmth and fervor of the Reformation had departed, and religion 
had sunk into the icy lifelessness of mere human prudence. "The 
Anglican church had conquered Romanism. Puritanism had 
sunk deep into the hearts of the ignored people. The church 
had won the day and held the field, and the first thing it did was 
to repudiate its old relationships. It sought no wedlock with 
poverty such as Francis sought and Giotto painted in his great 
fresco. The church had become a vast machine for the patronage 
of morality and the promotion of her own officers. How admir- 
able an investment is religion ! Such is the burden of their plead- 
ing. Sure gauge of respectability here and comfort hereafter." 

An extract from one of Clarke's sermons may show the type 
of pulpit appeal to the people : 

"The principal point of wisdom in the conduct of human life 
is so to use the enjoyments of this present world as that they may 
not themselves shorten the period wherein 'tis allowed us to enjoy 
them. * * * * w^e are not obliged to seek the Kingdom of 
God zvholly or only in a total and absolute exclusion of all other 
desires (as some melancholy, well disposed persons may be apt to 
imagine), but only that we are to seek it chiefly and in the first 
place. * * * * \Ye are required only to retrench our vain 
and foolish expenses ; not to sell all and give to the poor, but to 
be charitable out of the superfluity of our plenty, not to lay down 
our lives, or even the comfortable enjoyments of life, but to for- 
sake the unreasonable and unfruitful pleasures of sin." 

A sleek, comfortable, prudent, kind of piety this, such as had 
not been baptized in the sacrificial spirit of the Cross, and which 
would have given a very poor account of itself if it had been 
exposed to the fires of martyrdom. 

But not only had the church forgotten its spiritual function, 
the whole social fabric of life was saturated with the licentiousness 
of a degraded existence. The Sabbath day was neglected, espe- 
cially in the cities, and by the upper classes. Irreverence in God's 
house was a common fault. Cabinet councils were publicly held 



NORl H HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 45 

on the Lord's day, as were theatrical shows (though not called 
"sacred concerts"). Card parties and other social functions were 
common on that day. Society seems to have been a sink of all 
vices and a sewer for all the baser passions. What can be said 
for the morality of communities where one hundred and sixty 
different crimes were punishable with death, and where capital 
punishment was inflicted as plays are presented in theatres pub- 
licly and for money? 

In spite of this extreme stagnation and apparent death, the 
seed of the Kingdom of God was seciire, and its germinal power 
was still vigorous. Again it asserted itself and demonstrated how 
little Christianity is dependent on earthly governments and 
human machines. The eighteenth century was saved from utter 
moral ruin and decay by a great revival of religion. The 
"Wesleyan movement" it was called in England, and contempo- 
raneous with it the "Great Awakening," under Jonathan 
Edwards, in this country. 

Much has been said against revivals of religion in these later 
years. And they have been termed religious frenzies, but far 
better does it seem to incur the danger of the nervous phe- 
nomena of a revival than to experience that religious lethargy 
and moral death of whole communities, so common in the early 
years of the eighteenth century. 

The religious change in the closing years of the eighteenth 
century was not the only thing for which these years were 
remarkable. It was accompanied by a great intellectual resusci- 
tation. Goethe was its herald in Germany, Wordsworth and 
Southey in English poetry, Coleridge was reviving interest in 
philosophy, while Burns had sung his songs of love and nature, 
and Walter Scott had already appeared. While I have no doubt 
that this awakening was in the main due to causes outside the 
domain of organized Christianity, the most discerning historians 
would not exclude altogether the revival spirit from its origins. 
A writer in the London Spectator, July 15, 1899, insists that: 
"Wesley and his co-workers produced not only a great moral, but 
also a great intellectual change in England." 

This period was also notable for its political agitation. The 
war of independence had wrought wond'Tful changes everywhere. 



46 NORTH HAVEN IN 'J HE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

It had kindled the fires of hberty and created longings for free- 
dom, which first found expression in France, and would have 
spread all over Europe but for the Reign of Terror. This revolu- 
tionary movement, though it seemed to come from the disabilities 
of oppressed colonists and the unmatched wretchedness of the 
masses of Europe, had its distinctly religious element. For when 
cries of the masses for bread and the thunders of contending 
parties came before the true spirit of Christianity, Schleiermacher, 
one of its most discerning interpreters, unfolded more of its true 
meaning than had yet been seen, and proclaimed the true message 
of the revolution — that Christianity was essentially social, and the 
church the brotherhood of man. Under the stimulus of these 
changes the Christianity of this century was born, and immedi- 
ately addressed itself to the task of reorganizing its resources. 
In 1800 the Church Missionary Society was founded; in 1803, the 
Sunday School Union; in 1804, the British and Foreign Bible 
Society. In 1812 the same spirit manifested itself in America in 
the organization of the American Board; in 1814, the General 
Missionary Convention of the I'aptists ; in 1815, the Tract 
Society; and in 1817, the Colonization Society. Xor should we 
overlook in these organizing movements those societies for the 
abolition of slavery, which have been of such immense moment 
in the history of this country and are so distinctively religious in 
their origin. To the Friends of Pennsylvania belongs the honor 
of the first society, founded 1774. But to Methodists we owe the 
strongest and greatest of these societies. In their conference of 
1780 they declared that "slavery is contrary to the laws of God 
and man and nature, and hurtful to society; contrary to the dic- 
tates of conscience and ]Dure religion." 

Taking all these things into account, it seems as if Christi- 
anity, with prophetic foresight, was at the very beginning of the 
century anticipating the needs and deA'elopmcnt of the coming 
hundred years. 

At this period also there were signs that Christianitv would 
have to return to its primitive Apostolic condition and depend 
on her own resources for the success of her projected undertak- 
ings, and come to rely less and less on the support of the State 
and patronage of princes. The churcli l^egan to ajipeal to her 



NORTH HAVEN IN IHF NINETEENTH CENTURY. 47 

own constituency, poor as well as rich, for voluntary offerings. 
In this country the great Protestant bodies had to provide means 
for the building- of churches, for schools and other benefactions, 
as \vell as to defray current expenses of worship. And when it 
is remembered that most of these institutions have been estab- 
lished during- the ])ast century, the amount of money freelv con- 
tributed indicates what can be achieved in the future. In the 
earlier ages the expenses of religion had been Ijorne as an exact- 
ing imposition, from which there was no relief. I'.ut there now 
began the development of true benevolence. Now the people 
gave to the support of Christianity instead of paying for its 
ministrations. The voluntary system cultivates the spirit of 
benevolence and makes every contributor conscious that he has a 
real part to play in the advancement of Christianity. 

Co-ordinate with these other evidences of the growth of the 
Kingdom of God was the consciousness of a mission to uplift man 
in his social condition. Some would ascribe the beginnings of 
this to the High Church movement and Cardinal Newman's self- 
sacrificing spirit. But I cannot see how a careful study of the 
question could fail to place it at an earlier date. The work of 
Robert Raikes for the dirty urchins of Sooty Alley was not simply 
to instruct them in the Scriptures, but to improve their social 
condition. Raikes was followed in his work of social redemption 
by the seventh Earl of Shaftsbury in his grand struggle in behalf 
of the poor, and especially in shortening the hours of child labor. 
Then came John Howard, Clarkson and Wilberforce, and other 
names of equal lustre. The work of these men was not under the 
patronage of the church ; indeed, it was often opposed by the 
church or treated with indifference ; but who will say that they 
were not inspired by the spirit of Christianity? 

Great advance has been made since these early days by the 
church tow^ard a grander social ideal. But still how far does she 
feel herself from the beatific vision of modern theology and of 
the wisest and best of her thinkers of every shade of faith. This 
feeling of imperfection and struggle toward the ideal is a true 
sign of the life of the seed and warrants a deeper hope than ever 
before that some day the kingdoms of the earth will lie the King- 
dom of Our Lord, and that their politics will be ihe politics of 
the Sermon on the Mount. 



48 NORTH HAVEN IN 'J'HE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

The church has not, however, contented herself witli dreaming 
of a time when society should be relieved of all her present ills. 
She has lent herself to the succor of poor and needy who are suf- 
fering under defective systems of present social life. London, 
Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, \ ienna. New York, Boston, and 
other great communities are distinguished for their abundant 
philanthropies in the forms of hospitals, infirmaries, dispensaries, 
asylums, homes for the aged, lodging houses for the poor, shelters 
for waifs and neglected children, societies for inebriates, for the 
protection of animals, for the redemption of fallen women, and 
for other worthy purposes. In London five hundred charitable 
organizations spend $5,000,000 annually ; in New York the amount 
expended exceeds $4,000,000, and similar sums are devoted to 
benevolence in other communities, making in all a bewildering 
total. These benefactions call for extraordinary outlays in 
money, and must prove a serious drain on the resources of the 
people. Doubtless all of them, whether originating in the Old 
World or in the New, whether originating within the church or 
without, are indebted to Christianity for their existence. These 
are all significant signs of the growing strength of Christian 
feeling. But they pathetically demonstrate the sad failure of our 
political economy. They show us most plainly that our industrial 
system is not what it should be ; for if it were, much that is now 
lavished on charity would be spent on wages and the recipients 
would become more self-reliant by the change. Likewise they 
are signs of a troubled conscience, of an uneasy feeling that the 
evils of our age are largely the outgrowth of bungling methods 
and of a desire, if possible, to make atonement for the wrongs 
inflicted, and for the remedy of which neither within the church 
nor without has an adequate antidote yet been provided. 

What adds to the pathos of it all, is that there is an ever 
deepening consciousness of the relative failure of charity. There 
is no appreciable narrowing of the domain of poverty or material 
reduction of the number of beneficiaries or removal of the causes 
of want. There seems to "be a consensus of opinion among 
philanthropists that the machine consumes too much fuel for the 
work it does. 

Mr. Carnegie, on being asked why he gave so much money 
to libraries, replied: "I undertake to help the swimmers, not the 



NORTH HAVEN IN THF, MN'FTEKNTH CENTURY. 49 

submerged tenth," and there is sound philosoph_\ in that. While 
the church must never forget the submerged elements of society, 
and must go out in as tender love to them as to any others, she 
nmst strive to help them swim, not "attemi)t the impossible- 
swim for them." It seems at present as though no schemes of 
beneficence would fully counteract the evils of the present indus- 
trial system. Only a complete regeneration of all the avenues of 
life would effect such a reform. ]'>ut the Christian spirit should 
not and will not neglect her duty of benevolence to the masses 
of humanity, and in the coming years must address herself to the 
task of reorganizing her institutions, so as to insure a greater 
amount of work from the amotmt expended. The great denom- 
inations should come together and agree on some principle of 
co-operation in their benevolent work so that none of the worthy 
should be neglected and none of the needy be pauperized by 
tmwise lavishncss. This should be the direct work of the church, 
and not treated as an obligation which the commonwealth owes 
the citizen. When such an impression as this gets abroad, as in 
imperial Rome, tlie number of indigents, who are shameless, 
increase, and the more imperious their demands become. 

Any sketch of the Christianity of the century, however imper- 
fect, can never pass over the wondrous change which has taken 
place in understanding- of the church with regard to the material 
sources of her faith. The Bible at the beginning of the century 
was regarded by the Protestant church as received from God 
almost without error, and inspired from cover to cover. But the 
unfolding of the Christian spirit has revealed the human element 
in its production. \\'orthy men had been moved to tell of their 
feelings, desires and ideals. And as they were human and erring, 
had imparted to this wondrous book their own characteristics. 
In fact, inspiration has entirely lost its former significance, and 
is now merely a way of saying that the Bible is a revelation of 
God. At the beginning of the century the Bible was believed to 
be true l:)ecause it was inspired. To-day it is believed to be 
inspired because of its inherent worth. It is Truth that proves 
the inspiration, not inspiration the Truth. 

I know that there are many devout souls that feel afraid of 
the criticism of the Ib'ble which has been so characteristic of the 




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NORTH HAVl'.N IX THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 51 

later years of this century. But I believe it to be but the unfold- 
ing of that Christian spirit which the book itself contains. We 
find in it sundry exhortations and divers explicit warnings, which 
are somewhat irrelevant if we are not to test the credentials of an 
alleged inspired man or book b\- tlie character of the teachings 
published. We read: "When a pnjphet speaketh in the name 
of the Lord, if the thing follows not nor comes to pass, that is the 
thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath 
spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him." Here, 
then, we have one claiming to be sent of God to be inspired, and 
yet he can be set aside if his testimony is false. When St. John 
writes: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, 
whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone 
out into the world," and when St. Paul adds: "Prove all things," 
w-e have sufficient warrant for subjecting every alleged revelation 
to close and thorough scrutiny. 

It is interesting to note that St. John, in closing his Gospel, 
does not ground its claim to be accepted on its inspiration, but 
on its truth, and that St. Luke, when he takes in hand to set forth 
in order a declaration of these things, reminds Theophilus of his 
eminent qualifications for the task, but inspiration is not men- 
tioned among them. Our Saviour likewise, in His controversies 
with the Jews, never assumes that w'hatever He says should be 
believed because He said it, but only and always because it is 
true. Ho challenges investigation, and expects that He will be 
finally judged by the same rule that He employs in judging 
others. This same principle is evolved from the findings of 
Higher Criticism. While it concedes that there is an ins|)ired 
revelation in the word of God, it impresses on us the necessity of 
search, of inquiry, that the divine may be discriminated from the 
human ; the true from the erroneous ; the essential from the 
adventitious ; the permanent from the evanescent. In pursuing 
these investigations critics may think they have reached some 
al)surd conclusions and mav lay down for themselves canons of 
criticism distinctive of the supernatural : but, while these ex- 
tremes are to be deplored, they do Hot invalidate or discredit 
the obligation "to prove all things." 

We are told that this individual (.ii(|uiry will unsettle faith and 
lead to alienation and divisions in the Christian world. Is it not 




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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 53 

fair to ask : Has any other theory saved the world from this ? Has 
verbal inspiration saved the spectacle of sect and schisms, wrang- 
ling parties and hostile camps? Has it protected the Scripture 
from reckless, irreverent, ridiculous and contradictory interpreta- 
tions? If it has not, where is its practical advantage? An infal- 
lible word which forbids serious search into the real truth of its 
position, calls for an infallible interpreter of that word, and the 
Church of Rome is the only place where one who has this for his 
foundation stone will be at rest. 

But how shall w^e know what is from God, and what from 
man, and what is binding on us, and what is not? How know? 
Set the imprecatory Psalms over against the Sermon on the 
I\Iount, and is it conceivable that the feeblest intellect should fail 
to detect the immeasurable distance between them or for one 
moment doubt which was authoritative in human conduct ? Dis- 
crimination is not a difficult task ; and under either hypothesis it 
is unavoidable. Though we may believe every word in the Bible 
has been dictated, that does not commend to us the conduct of 
Samson, Ahab, Judas and other kindred souls, we set these 
men aside just as we do some hasty and violent expressions which 
have fallen from the lips of some Bible saints, as not being for 
our imitation. Whether we like to do so or not, we must dis- 
criminate if we are to be helped by the Scriptures. 

I believe it, then, to be one of the evidences of wondrous 
growth of Christianity during the past century that the Bible is 
no longer left as an unquestioned book, but by careful and 
thoughtful research has been found filled to the Ijrim with warm 
human interest and with a life superior to the life of contempo- 
raries because of a unique presence and immanence of a distinctly 
divine element. It will matter little what the critics lay aside of 
low ethical worth or to whom they ascribe it as author, so long 
as they get at the Truth and give us something that will be of 
practical value for Christian living. For Truth is far better than 
fiction, and true living than any ecclesiastical theory of inspira- 
tion. 

Unavoidably under such changing life outward expressions 
of man's religion have materially changed. A recent writer sums 
this change up entirely in the tendency toward humanism. Not 



54 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

strictly speaking, the Inunanisin of the Reformation, but the 
humanism of Christ. This humanism is essentially evangelical. 
While it regrets the hard, rigid and arid features of Augustinian- 
ism and its ofifspring Calvinism, it cherishes the fundamental 
doctrines of Grace and finds the key to their meaning in the 
Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. It talks not 
at all about predestinations and reprobations. It does not dwell 
on Divine wrath ; feels that such preaching has been overdone ; 
it has no confidence in limited atonements or in anything 
"limited" that represents the Almighty, except His anger ; it has 
little patience with the "schemes of redemption," presumptuously 
attributed to His wisdom, and which not infrequently have fur- 
nished evidence of man's folly ; but instead, it magnifies the love 
of God, beholds that love in the sacrifice of Christ, believes that 
through that love humanity is begotten again to love. 

While I am not oblivious to the fact that numbers still adhere 
to the cold rigidity of Calvinism and think more of God's w^rath 
as a power for good than of His all-conquering love, still I 
believe the tide has turned and men are coming surely, if slowly, 
to believe in the Divine humanism of the Christ. 

Equipped as it is for the coming years, Christianity cannot 
stand still ; she must progress. Gradually she is approximating 
toward the sublime ideal. There is a power in the Divine seed ; 
it shall grow and spread until it shall become a kingdom on 
whose boundaries the sun shall never set, and against whose 
power the gates of Hell shall nevermore prevail. Yes, it is com- 
ing! All signs point to its approach, and however the hearts of 
men may falter and fear, and however they may construe dif^- 
culties into prophesies of dire disaster, the instructed ear cannot 
be deaf to the sweet promises sounding in the closing hours of 
the nineteenth century concerning the spiritual unfolding of 
Christianity in the twentieth. 



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MEMBERSHIP OF THE UNION BAPTIST CHURCH, 

MON rOWESE, CONN. 

Organized June 12, 181 1. 
The Rev. Charles W. Jackson, Pastor. 

Deacons. 
William Todd, John L. Larkins. 

John L. Larkins, Clerk. 
John H. Beach, Treasit/er. 



Ailing, Mrs. Susan BeacJi 
Bailey, Mrs. Merwin 
Barnes, Arthur S. 
Barnes Charles M. 
Barnes, Miss Floralind M. 
Barnes, Linus 
Barnes, Mrs. Mary E. 



Barnes, Reuben W. 
Barnes, Willis 
Bigelow, Miss Grace L. 
Brockett. Mrs George 
Brockett, Mrs. Le Roy 
Brockett, Mrs. Maria 
Bunnell Miss Harriett 




Raii-koad and Highway Bkiuge uvkk iiik Mi mdn Rivek. 




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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



57 



Cooper, Mrs. Ellsworth B. 
Dolby, Mrs. Isaac 
Eaton, Mrs. Theophilus 
Fitch, Mrs. Lucy Ann 
Foote, Miss Almira 
Foote, Miss Ella 
Foote, Mrs. Frank 
Foote, Henry M. 
Foote, Judson D. ) 
Foote, Louise Hill f 
Foote, Miss Mary E. 
Foote, Mrs. Sybil Brockclt 
Froelich, William 
Gates, John \ 

Gates, Grace Aiigui- ) 
Jackson, Miss Annie E. 
Jackson, Charles W. 
Judd, Truman O. ) 

Judd, Amanda Robinson ) 
Judd, John B. 
Judd, Grace Culver 
Kober, Miss Nellie 
Laramore. Charles F. 
Laramore, Lulu Pay, 
Laramoi'e, Miss Minnie T. 
Larkins, Mrs John L. 
Larkins, Miss Estella M. 



sF. ) 

^avnc ) 



Linsley, Mrs. Etta Gates 
Noble, Garry L ) 

Noble, Margaret HeadS 
Palmer, Alonzo H. 
Palmer, Mrs. Francis 
Palmer, Mervvin E. \ 
Palmer, Elsie Leete ) 
Payne, Miss Mary A. 
Perry, Nathaniel \ 

Perry, Lydia Durlcee ) 
Rice, Mrs. George 
Robinson, Charles D. ] 
Robinson, l^loxy JuddS 
Robinson, Mrs. Ellsworth 
Robinson, Herbert 
Robinson, Mrs. Herman 
Robinson, Miss Nellie E. 
Robinson, Raymond R. 
Robinson, Willard A. ) 

Robinson, Georgia Lombard \ 
Robinson, William \ 

Robinson, Eliza C/tapinan ' 
Sackett, Miss Margaret V. 
Todd, Miss Rosa 
Todd, Mrs. William 
Tucker, Mrs. Dennis W. 



LADIES' AID SOCIETY. 
Union Baptist Church, Alontowese. 
Mrs. Theophilus Eaton, President. 
Miss Mary Foote, Secretary. 
Miss Stella Larkins, Treasurer. 



Barnes, Miss Flora 
Barnes, Mrs. Mary 
Brockett, Mrs. JNIaria 
Cooper, Mrs. Edith A. 
Cooper, Mrs. George H. 
Dolby, Mrs. L E. 
Foote, ]\Iiss Almira 
Foote, Miss Ella 
Foote, Mrs. Judson D. 
Hemingwav, ]\Irs. Edgar A. 



Hemingway, jNIiss Genevieve 
Jackson, Miss Annie 
Jackson, INIrs. Olivia 
Kober, Mrs. Louisa 
Kober, Miss Nellie 
Laramore, Mrs. Lulu 
Larkins, Mrs. John L. 
Mayer, Mrs. S. E. 
Merrick, Mrs. Adeline 
Pardee, INIrs. Edwin H. 



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Pardee, Mrs. Louise 
Pardee, Mrs. L. H. 
Payne, Miss ]Mary 
Perry, Mrs. L. J. 
Rice, Mrs. G. J. 
Robinson, Mrs. H. M. 
Robinson, Miss Nellie 
Robinson, Mrs. Willard A. 



Sackett, Mrs. Samuel 
Schneider, Mrs. Martha 
Smith, Mrs. Frank L. 
Storrs, Mrs. Hector W. 
Todd, Miss Carrie 
Todd, Miss Rosa 
Todd, Mrs. William P. 



WORKERS' MISSION BAND OF UNION BAPTIST 
CHURCH. 
Senior Division. 
George Kober, President. 
Miss Mary Eaton, Secretary. 
Miss Maude Bottume, Treasurer. 
Beach, Ada Foote, Ernest 



Benson, Bertha 
Brockett, Florence 
Cooper, Ethel 
Foote, Charlotte 



Foote, Florence 
Frederick, Annie 
Frederick, Harriett 
Glover, Bertha 




Residenxe of E. H. Pardee. 



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59 



Gritzbach, Albert 
Hemingway, Ruth 
Kober, August 
Perry, Adelbert 
Payne, Burton 
Robinson, Glcnford 
Robinson, Robert 
Saxton, Leroy 
Small, Irving 
Storrs, Bessie 
Talmadge, Edith 
Turner, Frank 
Wallace, Charles 
Wallace, Daisy 
Wallace, Rosie 



Junior Division. 
Harry Cooper, Secretary. 
Beach, Arthur 
Benson, Agnes 
Bottume, Gladys 
Brockett, Olive 
Brockett, Romeyne 
Cartier, Edmund 
Fish, Hattie 
Hemingway, Heaton 
Hemingway, Lila 
Hemingway, Paul 
Hemingway, Ralph 
Kober, William 



McLeod, Ina 
Payne, Walter 
Saxton, Frederic 
Shea, Arthur 
Shea, Flarold 
Small, Grace 
Small, Harold 
Wallace, Angel 




U.MON Mission Chapel 
Clintunville. 



UNION MISSION CHAPEL, CLINTON \1LLE. 

Erected by subscription, 1889. 
Site donated by George S. A'ibbert. 
Cost of building, $1,000.00. 

Religious service Sunday evenings. Affairs controlled by 
an Executive Committee. 

O. Sherwood Todd, Chairman. 
Edwin B. Stevens, Secretary. 
Ernest H. Richardson, Treasurer. 

The meetings held are undenominational, the desk being sup- 
plied by clergymen and laymen from surrounding churches. 



SERMON 

PKEACHKD IN 

ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 

North Haven, Conn., December 30, 1900, 

i;v 

The Re\'. Louis A. Parsons, Rector. 

" And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord 
thy God hath led thee." — Deut viii:2 

This command of Moses, the man. of God, comes at a time 
when it is needfnl that Israel remember the past. 

The forty years of probation in the wilderness have drawn to 
a close — years, designed, as Moses tells them, to hnmble them, to 
prove them, to know what was in their heart, whether they wonld 
keep God's commandments or no. These years have been 
marked by much suffering and sore trial, as indeed all periods of 
probation must necessarily be. ]\Iany a dreadful experience has 
seemed at the time of its happening to signal the destruction of 
God's chosen people, but out of every such apparent disaster has 
come a mighty and marvelous deliverance. Each perilous ex- 
perience has but served to manifest "the mighty hand and the 
stretched out arm." whereby the Lord their God has protected 
and preserved them that have trusted in Him and kept His Com- 
mandments. 

And so these years have served in the first place as a great 
test by which God has proven the hearts of those whose lovalty 
and obedience has fitted them for participation in a wider fulfil- 
ment of His purposes in the Promised Land. 

But the years have served yet another purpose — they have 
served to reveal the nature and the will of God. "And thou 
shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God hast led 
thee," — rememl)cr it as a God-given opportunity of proving 
vour fitness to share the privileges and responsibilities of a larger. 



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happier life, — remember it, too, as the blessed disclosure of 
God's love and mighty purpose for His people — "and He hum- 
l)led thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, 
which thou knowest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that He 
might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but 
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth 
man live." 

It is well to remember the past — profitable to look back 
over the years that have g^one for the lessons they teach us. 




vSt. Juiin's Chukch and Rectory. 

"Distance," we say, "lends enchar.tment to the view." Yes, 
it lends enchantment because it lends perspective. To see the 
beauty of a landscape we must see it from a distance. At close 
quarters we lose the effect, because we lose the proportions. But 
once let the distance of a mile or more intervene, and we begin 
to see things in their true perspective. 

Just so the distance of years is necessar\- to a true estimate of 
life. Its events are then seen in tlieir relative importance and 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 63 

true meaning. Each experience, at the time so painful, and 
seemingly disastrous, now assumes a widely different aspect, be- 
cause seen in its relations to the whole. Life's perspective is 
gained and its troubles become blessings. "It is good," says the 
Psalmist, as he looks back over his life, "it is good that I have 
been afflicted" — good, because, as he reviews his life, and sees it 
in its true perspective, he perceives a school of discipline whose 
long succession of apparent disasters and misfortunes are seen 




The Rt\-. Louis A, Parsons. 

Rector St. John's Church. 



to have been blessed opportunities of spiritual growth. "It is 
good that I have been alllicted. that I might learn thy statutes?" 

The true object of life is Character. And all life's various 
vicissitudes, when seen in their continuity, become stepping 
stones to nobler s])iritual achievements and the Christlike Char- 
acter. 

The all important thing, however, is that we regard and ac- 
cept them as such — that wc bear our prosperities with Christlike 



64 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

humility, our adversities with ChristHke patience and faith. And 
so whate'er may be our earthly lot, we may each succeeding 
year look back upon the many that are gone with the deepest 
sense of gratitude, not because they have brought us wealth, but 
because they have brought us character; not because they have 
brought us fame, but because they have brought us peace ; not 
because they have brought us nearer the attainment of some 
earthly ambition, but because they have brought us nearer Jesus. 

"I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road ; 
I do not ask that thou wouldst take from me aught of its load. 
I do not ask that flowers should always spring beneath my feet ; 
I know too well the poison of the sting of things too sweet. 
For one thing only, Lord, dear Lord, I plead ; Lead me aright, 
Though strength should falter, and though Heart should bleed, 
Through peace to light. 
I do not ask, O Lord, that Thou shouldst shed full radiance 

here ; 
Give but a ray of peace, that I may tread without a fear. 
I do not ask my cross to understand my way to see ; 
Better in darkness just to feel Thy Hand and follow Thee. 
Joy is like restless day ; but peace divine, like quiet night. 
Lead me, O Lord, till perfect dav shalt shine, through peace 

to light." 

And then, if the years reveal to us the meaning and purpose of 
life — they just as truly reveal to us the nature and designs of 
God. Through all the years there shines that continual mani- 
festation of God's love and purpose for His children. Whether 
it be time of peace or time of war ; long stretches of prosperity, or 
decades of disaster; great epochs of progress, or sad epochs of 
retrogression — through all alike the divine purpose unceasingly 
unfolds itself. Time was when men took a partialistic view of 
God's government of the world — when they thought that He 
cared and legislated for some and not for others. But that day 
is past, thank God, and to-day such partialistic view is impossible 
— impossible, because to-day anything like a partialistic 
view^ of His love is incredible. To-day, we are certain that He 
loves all men, irrespective of race, generation, color or conditions 
— loves them with an affection divine and impartial. And we 
know, too, to-day, that all things come from God, and because 
we know this, we are confident that He is present in our sorrows 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 65 

just as truly as in our joys, in time of adversity just as really as 
in season of prosperity. 

Even the sins of mankind serve to manifest the inexorable 
righteousness of God, and the punishments which they entail are 
but the evidence of His infinite love. Men are making history 
whenever they think, feel, and act ; and history is the revelation 
of God's purpose, because it is the manifestation of man's nature 
and destiny. Human life in all its phases and conditions is the 
disclosure of human character and its issues. And so the years 
are all consecutive chapters in that great and glorious Book of 
Eevelation, which all mankind is unconsciously writing by 
thought and deed — tlie great spiritual history of tlie race in 
which we see the key to all other histories, and without whose 
light they are all delusive and insufficient. 

It is God's great purpose shining through the years which 
imparts to them the unity of one sublime movement of life and 
love, and the fathomless significance of the working out of a will 
which overlooks no detail however slight, and forgets no life 
however obscure and insignificant. 

Surely the years are all divine because they come from God. 
As a poet has said : — 

A mighty Hand from an exhaustless urn 
Pours forth the never-ending flood of years 
Among the Nations. How the rushing waves 
Bears all before them, on their foremost edge, 
And there alone is life. The present there 
Tosses and foams, and fills the air with roar 
Of mingled noises '■' * * * 

■■:- * * * Beyond 

That belt of darkness, still the years roll on 
More gently, but with not less mighty sweep, 
They gather up again and softly bear 
All the sweet lives that late were overwhelmed 
And lost to sight, all that is there was good. 
Noble and truly great, and worthy of love — 
The lives of infants and ingenious youths. 
Sages and saintly women who have made 
Their households happy ; all are raised and borne 
By that great current in its onward sweep, 
Wandering and rippling with caressing waves 
Around green islands with its breath 
Of flowers that never wither." 



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"And thou shalt rcnienil:)er all the way which the Lord thy 
God hath led thee." 

When these words were first spoken the Children of Israel 
stood on the brink of Jordan — upon the very threshold of the 
Promised Land. One era in their progress has closed, another 
is opening up before them. Behind them lie the forty years of 
trial in the wilderness, before them stretches the future of glori- 
ous promise. And it is at this very point of transition that Moses 
bids them remember the past — remember all the way which the 
Lord thus has led them. 

Li their eagerness to enter upon this new period of their 
career — to acquire its privileges and taste its blessings — their dis- 
position, doubtless, was to forget the past and the lessons which 
its experience had brought them, and rush blindly into the future. 

But no, there must be a pause — a recollection of the past — a 
summing up of its lessons. Experience is a good teacher, and 
the past with its experiences must ever be the storehouse of 
principles which shall guide the future of these men of Israel. 

We find ourselves to-day, my friends, in a somewhat similar 
situation. We are standing upon the threshold, not only of a 
new year, but of a new century. Behind us lie one hundred 
years of mighty achievement in every department of human life 
and thought. 

For the world at large it has been a century of remarkable 
progress. For our nation in particular it has been a period of 
most rapid development. But it is not my purpose this morn- 
ing to go back over these years and review in detail the events, 
discoveries and products that have marked its progress and made 
it great. The newspapers and magazines have done all this with 
a thoroughness which leaves nothing to be said. Nor do I pro- 
pose to prognosticate the future that lies wrapped in the century 
before us. My purpose is simply to apply to the years of this 
passing century wdiat I have already said of the years in general 
— that their significance lies, not in their record of great achieve- 
ments and material progress, but in their disclosure of life's 
meaning and purpose, and their manifestation of the nature and 
design of God. It is this, indeed, which gives to the years their 
true value and significance. Then let us profit by it. And as 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 69 

we Stand ready to enter upon another centnry's career let us 
pause a moment — remember the past — recall its lessons. Let us 
see in each event and crisis, in every prosperity and adversitv of 
the past — a stepping stone to greater spiritual attainment. 
And in every such experience, let us note, where men have been 
true to their highest ideals, and governed by the best and noblest 
motives, the inevitable outcome has been an acquisition of char- 
acter which is always the greatest strength and power that we can 
possess. 

And let us perceive, too, as we review the years, the light of 
God's love and purpose shining through them. It is this ever- 
growing manifestation of the all-embracing love of God and the 
gradual fulfilment of His mighty purpose that give to the years 
a unity and significance truly divine. 

God is the Father of every human life, however insignificant 
or obscure, and His desire and purpose is that every human life 
shall know His love, and come to the knowledge and like- 
ness of Jesus Christ. May these facts and principles guide us 
as we enter upon this Twentieth Century which is opening before 
us. May it be a century of spiritual perception and progress, 
and may its years witness to all ever widening and deepening 
sense of the Fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of men— 
and so to the hastening of that day when the kingdoms of this 
world are become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



ST. JOHNS (EPISCOPAL) CHURCH. 

Officers of the Parish, January i, 1901. 
The Rev. Louis A. Parsons, Rector. 
Hubert F. Potter, Senior JJ^ardcii. 
Frank L. Stiles, Junior Warden. 

Vestrymen. 
HoBART Blakeslee, Joseph Pierpont, 

Edwin H. Pardee, FIerbert P. Smith, 

Charles W. Dudley. 

Harry C. Beers, Clerk. 

RoMANTA T. LiNSLEY, Treasurer. 

Compiled by R. T. Linsley. 

St. John's Church was one hundred forty-two years old April 
24, 1 90 1. It was organized as a parish church of the Church of 
England, in 1759. A society, in some form, had existed from 
1722 to 1759. 

The first confirmation, one of the earliest in this country, was 
in 1786, by Bishop Seabury, the first Bishop of Connecticut and 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The next was by the same 
Bishop in 1795. Thirty-two persons were confirmed by him. In 
181 1 thirty-seven persons were confirmed by Bishop Jarvis, the 
second Bishop of Connecticut. Between 1821 and 1845, during 
the Episcopate of Bishop Brownell, the third Bishop of Con- 
necticut, sixty-three were confirmed. Between 1852 and 1897, 
under the Episcopate of Bishop Williams, the fourth Bishop of 
Connecticut, two hundred forty-one were confirmed. Between 
1898 and 1901, during the present Episcopate of Bishop Brew- 
ster, twenty-one have been confirmed. Total number confirmed, 
three hundred ninety-four. 

The number of Episcopal families in 1801 was forty-one. The 
Grand List of the Episcopal Society in 1801 was $4,548. In 1817 



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there were forty-two families and thirty registered communicants. 
In 1830 thirty famiHes and forty registered communicants. In 
1840 forty-four famiHes and forty registered communicants. In 
1859 St. John's Church celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. 
In that year there were fifty-five families and seventy-two regis- 
tered communicants. In 1870 there were sixt}'-two families and 
one hundred registered communicants. In 1880 seventy-six 
families and one hundred twenty-eight registered communicants. 
In 1901 there are one hundred four families, and parts of families, 
and two hundred eighteen registered communicants. 




Hubert F. Potter. 

Ex-Selectman. 

Chairman State Dairymen's Association. 

Warden St. John's Church. 



Joseph Piektont. 

Ex-Member General Assembly. 
Treasurer Kradley Library. 
Vestryman St. John's Church. 



Between 1759 and 1857 thirty Episcopal clergymen officiated 
here, at different times, and each only part of the time. No 
clergyman resided here before 1833 ; and no one was elected 
rector of the parish, with residence here and services every Sun- 
day, before 1857. Between that date and 1899 there were nine 



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rectorships. They were short, except two — the rectorship of the 
Rev. E. L. AVhitcombe, seven years and four months, between 
i86g*Tid 1877, during- which thirty-five persons were baptized, 
forty were confirmed, and the offerings greatly increased ; and 
the rectorship of the Rev. Wilham Lusk, nineteen years, between 




The Rev. William Lusk. 

Rector St. John's Church 18S0-1899. 

1880 and 1899, during which one hundred six persons were 
baptized, one hunch-ed thirty confirmed, and a number were wait- 
ing for confirmation at the close of the rectorship. This period, 
between 1880 and 1899, is the period of greatest advance in the 
liistory of St. John's Church, in the number of families, baptisms, 



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confirmations and registered communicants ; and in church 
music, organized work, and in the offerings and wealtli of the 
people. During this period the endowment fund of tlie parish 
reached the sum of $18,000. The present rectorship, beginning 
m 1899, IS the tentli. 




Herbert P. Smith. 

Vestryman St. John's Church. 



Evelyn Blakeslee. 

Warden St. John's Church fifty years. 
Trial Justice Local Town Court. 
Member General Assembly, 1851. 
E.\-Selectman and Town Agent. 
Died 188S. 



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REGISTERED COMMUNICANTS, 1901. 



Resident. 



Allen, Franklin 
Allen, Hobart B. 
Allen, David F. 
Allen, Hiram 
Allen, Margaret 
Bailey, Samuel 
Bailey, Marina S. 
Bailey, Frederic E. 
Bassett, Herbert I. 
Bassett, Frances S. 
Beach, M. Elizabeth, 
Beach, Nettie A. 
Beers, Harry C. 
Bigelow, Lucy A. 
Bigelow, Glenna M. 
Bishop, Joseph E. 
Bishop, Margaret S. 
Bishop, Walter H. 
Bishop, Kitty L. 
Bishop, Lucy M. 
Bishop, Edwin S. 
Bishop, Mary A. 
Bishop, Clarissa M. 
Blakeslee, Hobart 
Blakeslee, Elnora M. 
Blakeslee, Arthur A. 
Blakeslee, George N. 
Blakeslee, John H. 
Blakeslee, Etta A. 
Blakeslee, Ruby A. 
Blakeslee, Florence G. 
Blakeslee, Philip C. 
Blakeslee, Donald G. 
Blakeslee, Lucy L. 
Blakeslee, Minnie A. 
Blakeslee, Sina 
Bradley, Elizabeth L. 
Bradley, Eva S. 
Brockett, S. Roena 
Brockett, Edith L. 
Buckingham, Henry W. 
Buckingham, Henrietta A. 



Butler, Margaret J. 
Cade, Charles T. 
Cade, Fannie 
Chnton, George W. 
Clinton, Frances A. 
Clinton, Grace A. 
Clinton, Friend 
Clinton, Helen G. 
Clinton, Evelyn B. 
Clinton, Florence A. 
Clinton, Elbert G. 
Clinton, Ella J. 
Clinton, Robert J. 
Clinton, H. Matilda 
Clinton, Bessie E. 
Clinton, Anson B. 
Clinton, Mary C. 
Clinton, H. Wilson 
Clinton, Emily B. 
Clinton, Eliza J. 
Crampton, Hannah E. 
Davis, Emma J. 
Divine, Hervey O. 
Divine, Eliza A. 
Doolittle, Mary A. 
DuBois, Catherine L. 
Dudley, Charles W. 
Dudley, Flora E. 
Dudley, Edmund J. 
Dudley, Phcebe J. 
Fowler, Maltby 
Gabaree, Julia A. 
Gilbert, Stephen G. 
Gilbert, Celia L. 
Goodyear, Ellen M. 
Goodyear, Anna L. 
Goodyear, Robert W. 
Goodyear, Sarah A. 
Goodyear, Mary B. 
Harrison, Reuben 
Harrison, Jennie A. 
Harrison, Burdett 



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Heaton, Charles L. 
Heaton, Edward L. L. 
Hipelius, Ida E. 
Hitchcock, Sarah E. 
Hull, John W. 
Hull, John S. 
Hull, Martha J. 
Hull, Minnie D. 
Hull, Marietta R. 
Hull, Edward P. 
Hull, Carry E. 
Hull, Harriet A. 
Keigwin, Henry C. 
Keigwin, Clara E. 
Keigwin, Herbert A. 
Keigwin, Clarence H. 
Keigwin, Flora 
Laverty, Isabella 
Laverty, Birdie M. 
Leete, William P. 
Leete, Mary E. 
Leete, Cynthia M. 
Linsley, Romanta T. 
Linsley, Angeline B. 
Lord, Austin B. 
Lusk, The Rev. William 
Lusk, Clara H. 
McCabe, Howard E. 
Maginness, Carrie E. 
Mansfield, Polly C. 
Mansfield, Isaac E. 
Mansfield, Mary D. 
Mansfield, Josephine M. 
Marks, Marcus D. 
Marks, S. Elizabeth 
Moulton, Mabel B. 
Munson, George O. 
Munson, Ellen F. 
Munson, Lucy T. 
Parsons, The Rev. Louis A. 
Parsons, Edwin A. 
Parsons, Mary I. 
Pardee, Edwin H. 
Pardee, Elizabeth M. 
Pardee, Louisa L. 
Pierpont, Joseph 



Pierpont, Hattie B. 
Pierpont, Richards B. 
Pierpont, Harriet R. 
Potter, Hubert F. 
Potter. Catharine A. 
Potter, Walter F. 
Potter, Martha E. 
Potter, Emma A. 
Potter, Mattie E. 
Pratt, Charles C. 
Priesley, Leonard 
Redfield, Ida L. 
Redfield, Fannie M. 
Redfield, Ethel F. 
Rice, Waher W. 
Rice, Esther S. 
Sexton, Margaret E. 
Shepherd, Sarah M. 
Smith, Herbert P. 
Smith, Mary J. 
Smith, M. Grace 
Smith, Ellsworth J. 
Smith, Herbert W. 
Smith, Martha J. 
Smith, Susan A. 
Smith, Walter E. 
Stiles, F'rances E. 
Stiles, Ezra L. 
Stiles, Ellen M. 
Stiles, Frank L. 
Stiles, Mary A. 
Stiles, William L. 
Stiles, Lizzie E. 
Stiles. Frederic H. 
Stiles. Ellen G. 
Stiles. Leila B. 
Stiles. Alice M. 
Stiles. Edgar H. 
Stiles. Leroy I. 
Stiles, George W. 
Stiles, Mary E. 
Stiles, Flora E. 
Stiles, Rosabelle C. 
Thomlinson, John A. 
Thomlinson, Fanny AT. 
Thomlinson, Matthew H. 



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Thorpe, Riifus 
Thorpe, Emily L. 
Todd, Martha A. 
Todd, Oliver S. 
Todd, Emma L. 
Todd, Anna E. 
Todd, Lina F. 
Todd, Amanda F. 
Tuttle, H. Louise 
Tuttle, Angelina M. 

Non-resident. 
Austin, ]\Iary E. 
Brockett, Grace C. 
Brockett, Walter D. 
Brockett, Frank L. 
Brockett, Grace G. 
Brockett, jNlelissa 
Blakeslee, Catharine A. 
Blakeslee, Fannie J. 
Cheney, Susan B. 
Clark, Herman D. 
Clark, Ida F. 
Divine, John H. 
Divine, Alice E. 
Devine, Lucy A. 
Forbes, Nathaniel D., 
Forbes, Edwin L. 



Jr. 



Forbes, Rubert W. 
Hoadley, Alice E. 
Johnson, Anna C. 
Laverty, John J. 
Laverty, William 
Lucas, Le Etta J. 
Mansfield, Caroline M. 
Marks, Mabel S. 
Mansfield, Celia A. 
Palmer, Mary B. 
Pierpont, George R. 
Pierpont, Anna B. 
Pierpont, Anna L 
Terrell, Harriet A. 
Trowbridge, May C. 
Warner, Helen S. 

Sununary. 

Total number of registered 
communicants, 218 
Resident, 75 males. 

Ill females. 

Total, 1S6 
Non-resident, 10 males. 
22 females. 

Total, 22 



THE LADIES' GUILD OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH. 
Organized October 11, 1877. 
Mrs. Reuben Harrison, President. 
Mrs. Harriett R. Pierpont, Secretary and Treasurer. 



Bailey, Mrs. Samuel 
Bassett, Mrs. Herbert L 
Bigelow, Miss Lucy A. 
Blakslee, Mrs. Hobart 
Bradley, Mrs. Charles 
Brockett, Mrs. Albert 
Clinton, Mrs. Isaac 
DuBois, Mrs. W. R. 
Dudley, Mrs. Charles 
Gilbert, Mrs. Stephen G 
Goodyear, Mrs. E. D. S. 



Goodyear, Miss Mary 
Hull, Mrs. John 
Mansfield, Mrs. Isaac E. 
Mansfield, Mrs. Irving 
Pardee, Mrs. Louisa 
Pierpont, Mrs. Joseph 
Shepherd, Mrs. Sarah 
Smith, Mrs. Herbert P. 
Stiles, Mrs. Frances 
Stiles. Mrs. Ellen M. 
Thomlinson. Mrs. John A. 



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MEMBERSHIP OF DAUGHTERS OF THE KING. 

St. John's Chiircli. 

Organized May 17, 1892. 

AIrs. William S. Stiles, President. 

]\Irs. Williajm p. Leete, Secretary. 

Mrs. Herbert I. Bassett, Treasurer. 



Austin, Mrs. Ellsworth A. 
Bigelow, Miss Lucy A. 
Blakeslee, Mrs. Florence 
Blakeslee, Mrs. John H. 
Blakeslee, Mrs. Whitney 
Bradley, Mrs. Charles W. 
Cheney, 'Miss Susan B. 
Clinton, Mrs. Anson B. 
Doolittle, Mrs. Mary A. B. 
Dudley, Mrs. Charles 
Dudley, Mrs., Edward J. 
Gabaree, Mrs. Joseph 
Goodyear, Miss Anna L. 
Gilbert, Mrs. Stephen G. 
Harrison, Mrs. Reuben 
Hull, Mrs. John S. 



Laverty, Miss 
Lucas, Mrs. Willis 
Lusk, Mrs. William 
Mansfield, Mrs. Isaac E. 
]\Iaginnis, Miss Caroline 
Pardee, Mrs. Edwin H. 
Pierpont, Mrs. Joseph 
Potter, Mrs. Hubert F. 
Redfield, Mrs. Ida L. 
Rice, Mrs. Wallace W. 
Smith, Mrs. Herbert P. 
Stiles, Mrs. Ellen M. 
Stiles, Mrs. Frank L. 
Thomlinson, Mrs. John A. 
Todd, Mrs. O. Sherwood 



CHAPTER 1251, BROTHERHOOD OF SAINT 
ANDREW. 

The Rev. Louis A. Parsons, Ex-oiUcio. 
Herbert William Smith, Director. 
Harry Croswell Beers, Secretary. 
Edward Lee Heaton, Treasurer. 



Smith, Walter 
Devine, Hervey O. 



Smith, Ellsworth Johnson 
Tomlinson, Matthew Henry 




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PARISHIONERS OF ST. MARYS (CATHOLIC) 
CHURCH, HAMDEN. 

Org-anized 1854. 
The Rev. William J. Dullard, Pastor. 



RESIDENT IN NORTH HAVEN. 

Barber, Joseph 

Barber, JNIrs. Josepli 

Barber, Miss Alice 

Barber, Miss Ellen 

Barber, Frederic 

Barber. Miss Julia 



Beauchamp, Joseph 
Beauchamp, Mrs. Joseph 
Beauchamp. Miss Edna 
Beauchamp, Frederic 
Beauchamp. George 
Beauchamp, Isaac 




Catholic Ciiukc'ii, ii.\ML)EN, Co.\.\. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



Burke, Michael E. 
Burke, Mrs. Michael E. 
Burke, Mrs. Michael 
Burke, Miss Florence 
Cummings, Mrs. Dennis 
Cummings, John 
Cummings, Miss Mary 
Drinkwine, Arthur 
Drinkwine, William 
Drinkwine, Mrs. William 
Drinkwine, ]\Iichael E. 
Drinkwine, Mrs. Michael E. 
Drinkwine, Eli 
Drinkwine, i\Irs. Eli 
Drinkwine, Miss Laura 
Drinkwine, Luke 
Drinkwine, Michael 
Drinkwine, Mrs. Michael 
Dumond, Mrs. Ellen 
Dumond, Miss Emma 
Dumond, Frederic 
Dumond, Joseph 
Halligan, James 
Halligan, John 
Halligan, Mrs. John 
Halligan, Patrick 
Halligan, Mrs. Patrick 
Halligan, William 
Halligan, Mrs. William 
Halloran, Andrew 
Halloran, ]\Irs. Andrew 
Higgins, James 



Higgins, Mrs. James 
Higgins, Miss Annie 
Kennedy, Daniel 
Kennedy, Miss Annie 
Kennedy, ]\Iiss INIargaret 
Lehane, Mrs. Jeremiah 
Lehane, Miss Nora 
Leonard, Thomas 
Leonard, Mrs. Thomas 
Lynch, Thomas 
Lynch, j\Irs. Thomas 
Moran, Miss Mary 
Moran, Thomas 
Moran, Mrs. Thomas 
Moran, Thomas 
Monahan, Philip 
Monahan. ]Mrs. Philip 
Nielson, Walford 
Neilson, Mrs. Walford 
Rice, Edward 
Rice, Mrs. Edward 
Rice, Miss Margaret 
Rowan, Mrs. Joseph 
Roarke, Peter 
Roarke, Mrs. Peter 
Roarke, John 
Roarke, Peta 
Roarke, INIiss Kate 
Roarke, Eliza 
Roarke, Agnes 
Ward, Mrs. Ann 
Ward, Thomas 



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BUILDING STATISTICS. 

Compiled by Solomon F. Linsley, Contractor. 

The following list comprises residences which have been 
erected m the town during the last half century. 



District No. i 



J-^'iO J. I\1V, J. x> 

•Clinton, Merrit, 


W. 1 




1853 


Patten, D. Walter. . 




1855 


Bassett, Lyman, . . 




i860 


Clinton, Robert J., 




I86I 


Blakslee, Zera T., . . 




1866 


Fowler, Lewis L, . . 




1867 


Benian, Wesley, . . 




1867 


Smith, Alonzo G., . . 




1869 


Blakeslee, Hobart, 




I87I 


Redfield, Charles, 




1872 


Hyde, L. ]\[unson. 




1875 


Orcutt, Payson B., . 




1875 


Vibbert, George S.. . 




1877 


Clinton, Andrew G., . 




1886 


Smith, Stephen, . . 




1888 


Fallert Brewing Co., . 




1884 


Sherwood, Clarence, . 




IS98 


DiSTRCT No. 2 




Corf, Henry P., . . 


. I85I 


McGann, Edward, 






1852 


Austin, Andrew F 






1857 


Brockett, John E. 






1858 


Palm.er, George, 






1859 


Readings, George, 






1859 


Condon, Edward, 






i860 


Olsen, Per A., 






1863 


Delamater, Louis, 






1867 


Jacobs, C. jNL, . 






1869 


Marks, Nathan H 






1872 


Barnes. Robert N 






1876 


Ball, Edwin, . . 






1876 


Bailey, Sarah, . 






1879 


Barnes, Lucia B., 






1882 


Gerwig, George, 






1882 


Kehoe, ]Maria, . 






1889 



Olson, John A 

Munson, George, . . . 
Brockett, Albert B., . . 
Robinson, George, . . 

District No. 3. 

Sackett, Samuel Mrs., . 
Hemingway, Merwin, 
Brockett, Luzerne A., . 
Foote, Henry, . . . . 



1893 
1894 
1897 



1857 
1857 
1857 
i860 




Lieut. Solomon F. Linsi.ey. 

Veteran of the Civii War. 
Member Post 17, G. A. R. 
Builder and Contractor. 
Died March 13, 1901. 




X 



86 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 



Saxton, Charles, . 
Culver, John, . . 
Frost, J. Henry, . 
Robinson, Julia, 
Shea, James O., . 
Robinson, Willard, 
Brocksieper, F. W.. 
Potter, Hubert F., 
Foote, Frank, . . 
Babb, Frederic, 
Cody, Mrs. (2), . 
Hemingway, Louis, 
Barnes, George, 
Tucker, Dennis W., 
Uhl, Louis, . . . 
Palmer, John F., 
Bigelow, Irving, . 
Talmadge, George H 
Hoadley, John, . . 
Moulthrop, Sherman (heirs 
Eaton Brothers, 
Davis, Richard, 



I86I 


Lehr, Gottfried, 








1873 


I86I 


Schmidt, Caroline, 






1873 


I86I 


Barnes, Mary R., . 






1874 


1866 


Payne, Charles, 








1875 


1867 


Scott, Frances, . 








1875 


1867 


Feldstein, Abram, 








1876 


1868 


Kober, George, 








1876 


1869 


Feldstein, Morris, 








1876 


1869 


Frost, Irving, . 








1876 


1869 


Scherb, Adam, . 








1876 


1870 


Uhl, Adam, . . 








1877 


1870 


Bigelow, Irving, 








1877 


1870 


Brown, Phebe, . 








1878 


I87I 


Schneider, Edwarc 


, 






1879 


1872 


Schultz, Julius, . 








1880 


1872 


Foote, Judson, . 








1882 


1872 


Fitch, Mrs., . . 








1883 


1872 


Larkins, A. J., . 








1885 


1872 


Schauer, Frederic, 






1887 


1872 


Post Oil^ce Building, 






1888 


1872 


"The Hermitage," . 






1889 


1873 


Frost, John, . . 








1889 




Residence of Roi;kki .\. Barnes. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 87 




Residence of Charles H. Thorpe. 




Residence of Romanta T. Linsley. 



Jti 



♦ij 



p 

td 




9° 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



Brocksieper, F. W., 
Robinson, Nellie. . 
Brockett, Maria L., 
Hemingway, Edgar, 
Hemingway, Robert 
"The Summerdale," 
Wisner, Henry, 
Shea, James O., . 
Frost, Clarence N., 
Potter, H. F., . . 
Judd, Benise F., . 
Pardee, Edwin H., 
Hemingway, Frank, 
Beach, Wilbur E., . 
Anderson, J. P., . 
Foote, Sybil A., . 
Montowese Brick Co 
Storrs, Hector W. 

District No. 

Lord, Dr. Austin, . 
Dickerman, William E., 



1889 
1890 
1892 
1894 
1894 
1895 
1895 
1895 
1896 
1896 
1896 
1897 
1898 
1898 
1898 
1898 
1900 
1900 



185 1 
i8qi 



Munson, James, . . . 
St. John's Church Rectory 
Blakcslee, Henry M., 
Hine, Nelson W., . 
Bradley, Rowe S. (heirs), 
Carlson, Alfred, 
Spencer, E. A., . . 
Smith, Herbert P.. 
Bailey, Samuel, 
Barnard, James F.. 
Heaton, Julius W., 
Frost, Alva, . . . 
Dumond, Mrs. Ellen 
Linsley, Romanta T. 
Stiles, Frank L., . 
Goodyear, Dr. R. B.. 
Robinson, Henry H 
Thorpe, Sheldon B., 
Brockett, Frederic H 
Thorpe, Rufus, . . 
Stiles, George W., . 
Higgins, James, 



1853 

rS 

1856 

1856 

1858 

i860 

i860 

i860 

i860 

1866 

1869 

1870 

1870 

1S70 

1870 

187 f 

1871 

1871 

1871 

1872 

1872 

1872 




Plioto l)y Thorpe. 



Residence of Sheldon B. Thorpe. 



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Photo by Heatou. RESIDENCE OF SOLOMON F. LiNSLEV. 




Residence of Gen. E. D. S. Goodyear. 



^2 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



Todd, Mrs. Louisa, . 
Page, Mrs. Augustus, 
Burke, Michael, . 
Fowler, Maltby, 
Smith, H. P.. . . 
Smith, Mrs. CaroHne, 
Bradley, Charles W.. 
Forent, Joseph, . . 
Blakeslee, Julius, . 
Munson, L. M., . 
Thorpe, Frank S., . 
Thorpe, Charles H.. 
Keigwin, Henry C, 
Pardee, George W.. 
Halligan, Patrick. 
Linsley, Solomon F 
Hyde, Albert A., . 
Dumond, Mrs. Ellen. 
Avigni, Andrew, . 
Drinkwine, Eli, . . 
Burke, ]\Iichael E., 
Rice, Edward, . . 



1872 


Blakeslee, Arthur E., 




1890 


1872 


Avigni, Paolo, 




1890 


IS7.3 


Leete, William P., 




1892 


I87J 


Leete, ]\lrs. Mary. 




1892 


1874 


Todd, Mrs. Amanda, 




1892 


1875 


Thorpe, Henry L., 




1893 


1875 


Goodyear, Gen. E. D 


. S., 


1893 


1876 


Stiles, Wilham S.. 




1893 


1876 


Cong. Church Parsonage, 


1894 


1876 


Vibbert, Albert N., 




1895 


1876 


Beauchamp, Joseph, 




1896 


1878 


Neilson, Walford, 




1896 


1878 


Squires, Frank N., 




1896 


1883 


Reise, Caroline, 




1897 


1885 


Gabarre, Joseph, . 




1897 


1884 


Beers, Harry C, . 




1898 


1888 


Munson, Ezra G., . 




1898 


1888 


Halligan, William, 




i8gS 


1888 


Dickerman, William 


E., 


1900 


I88Q 


Stiles, Frank L., . 




1900 


1889 


Stiles Brick Co., The 


(10) 




1889 




18; 


-4-1900 




Residence of Fk.\nk L. Stiles. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. QJ 




Photo by Heaton. RESIDENCE OF WiLLIAM P. LeETE. 




Photo by Gii:ette. 



Residence oi Mekkjn (_riiri.iri; 



94 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 



District No. 6. 
Foster, Emanuel P.. . . 
Bradley, Andrew, . . . 
Jacobs, Frederic E., . . 
Hitchcock, A. H., . . 
Monahan, Philip, . . . 

Anderson, Mr 

Buckingham. Henry, 
Barker, David O., . . 

District No. 7. 
Smith, James E., . . . 

Kennedy, Daniel 

Smith, George W. (estate), 
Tuttle, Amos (estate), . . 

Stiles, Frank L 

Gillette, jMerton, . . . . 

Smith Brothers 

Lane, Alfred A., . . . . 



1851 
1868 
1870 
1870 
1872 
1870 
1889 
1899 



1856 
i860 
i86r 
1863 
1807 
1867 
1868 
i86g 



Howarth. Alfred A 1872 

Lynch, Thomas, .... 1872 

Mansfield, Isaac E 1875 

Smith. Charles B 1876 

Bassett, Herbert L, . . . 1879 

Mansfield, Edwin L.. . . 1882 

Brockett, Frederic H., . . 1885 

Lehane, Jeremiah, . . . 1887 

Brockett. Ernest R 1889 

Goodsell, Wilson E., . . . 1890 

Shepherd. -Mrs. Sarah. . . 1890 

Thomlinson, J. A., . . . 1891 

Mansfield, William L., . . 1893 

Whitehead. Levi 1894 

Blakeslee, Frederic W.. . . 1895 

Dudley, Edward J 1896 

Dudley, Charles W., . . . 1896 

Stiles, Frank L 1897 

Marks, Marcus D., . . . 1898 




Residence of Mrs. Sarah SnErnERD. 



NORTH HAVEN IN IHE NINETEENTH CENTURY 



95 



District Xo 


8 






Terrell, W 






i8go 


Cooper, Levi J., . 


. . 1851 


Bruce, James, . . 






1891 


Beach. Joel P.. . . 






1854 


Reis, Crevye, . . 






1893 


Van Doran. William 






1857 


Jephson, L 






1894 


Vittorio, James, 






1857 


Oberlin, Gustave, . 






1895 


Downs. A. L., . . 






1857 


Basselt, Charles, . 






1896 


Shares, Daniel W., 






1861 


Spencer, B. F., . . 






1896 


Shares. Horace P., 






1865 


Neilson, INIilo, . . 






1896 


Bailey, Charles, 






1869 


Vogel, William, . 






1896 


Todd. Sereno. . . 






1871 


Buell, C, ... 






1897 


Stiles, Frank L., . 






1872 


Guernot, A., . . 






1898 




Soi 


1, 


1872 








1898 


Ives. George W. & 


ijenecuci. ■ , 


Abell, Oliver, . . 






1880 


Peterson. Christine, 






1898 


Coon, William, 






1881 


Iberson, Jeno C, . 






1898 


Collett, Thomas, . 






1881 


Gibbard, T., . . . 






1898 


Austin, F. E., . . 






1882 


Downs, George T., 






1899 


Wooding, Milo, 






1882 


Thompson, Soren, 






1899 


Jensen. J. C, . . 






1883 


Duckert, Antons, . 






1899 


Bedell. S 






1884 


Cooper. ^lary F.. . 






1899 


Hurlburt, E. L., . 






1885 


]\Iastrorio. Dominick 






1900 


W'right, Charles, . 






1887 


Peterson. Caroline, 






1900 


^X ''')^.'^ 


J/ "^^^H^-^v^^ 


i^v X • 






f ' > 


'^^""""''^^x^ 


J- 


X 


-^"^ 



I 



^' 



■^^^^'^^ 



^^ 



Residence of William B. Roberts. 



96 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



THE BRADLEY LIBRARY. 

Catalogue, 3,000 volumes. 

The Rev. William G. Lathrop, Prcsidcnl. 

Mrs. Herbert P. Smith, Secretary. 

Joseph Pierpont, Treasurer. 

JMiss Clara Bradley, Librarian. 

This institution was incorporated by the General Assembly 
of Connecticut at the January session, 1884. It derived its exist- 
ence from the munificence of the Hon. Silas Levcrius Bradley, 
a citizen of Auburn, N. Y., who devised the sum of one thousand 
dollars "to be used in the founding of a library association in my 
native town of North Haven, Conn.'' Air. Bradley died April 17, 
1883. A public meeting of the citizens was called September 5, 
same year, to take action upon this becjuest, at which time the 




Plioto by Thorpe. 



Memorial Hall. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



97 



following gentlemen were chosen to become the incorporators ot 
the Bradley Library Association : 

The Rev. William Lusk, Jr. Maltry Fowle;^. 

The Rev. William T. Reynolds. Sheldon B. Thorpe. 
The Rev. Emerson S. Hill. Dr. Benjamin M. Page. 

Edward L. Llxslev. 

The work of organization began immediately, and the library 
was opened to the public at the residence of Dr. Austin Lord, on 




Miss Clara E. Bradley. 

Librarian of the Bradley Library. 

October 2, 1884. It remained at that place until January i, 1887, 
when it was transferred to quarters provided free by the town in 
Memorial Hall. 

Upon the death of Mrs. Jane L. Bradley, in 1891 (widow of 
the Hon. Silas L. Bradley), the library received a second legacy 
of one thousand dollars, and a valuable donation of books. Dur- 
ing all the above period and up to October, 1893, this institution 
had been mainly supported by membership fees, but at the annual 
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98 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



town meeting, in the latter year, it was voted that upon condition 
of its being made free to the public, a grant of one hundred 
fifty dollars would be given it, with the implied understanding 
that so long as it continued free, the town would contribute to 




Isaac L. Stiles. 

Warden St. John's Church. 

Selectman. 

Member General Assembly. 

Died July i, 1895. 

its support. This provision, so much desired, the directors has- 
tened to comply with, and on October 6, 1893, it was to all intents 
and purposes declared a free public library. So satisfactory did 
this change prove, that at the annual town meeting, in 1894, the 
erant was raised to two hundred dollars. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



99 



The library has received further bequests of one thousand 
dollars each from the Hon. Isaac L. Stiles, of North Haven, 
Conn., and Dr. Judson B. Andrews, of Bufifalo, N. Y. 




Dk. Judson B. Andrews. 



Born North Haven April 25, 1834. 

Graduated from Yale College 1855. 

Member of Col. Ellsworth's Zouaves 1861. 

Enlisted 77th New York Vols, and made Cap- 
tain 1861. 

Fought under McClellan in the Peninsular 
Campaign. 

Resigned Commission 1862. 

Completed Medical studies, Yale College, 1863. 



Enlisted igth Connecticut Vols, and made As- 
sistant Surgeon 1863. 

Mustered out of Service 1865. 

Superintendent Buffalo, N. Y., State Hospital 
1880. 

33" Mason. 

Died at Buffalo, N. Y., August 3, 1894. 

(See 24th Report Buffalo Hospital, and Ameri- 
can Journal of Insanity, July, 1892. 



The patronag-e is good. It is open Tuesday and Saturdav, 
afternoon and eveninsf. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



MONTOWESE LITERARY SOCIETY, 



Organized September 20, 1883. 

Mrs. Theophilus Eaton, President. 
Miss Cora Eaton, Secretary. 
Albert H. Zuber, Treasurer. 



Barnes, Miss Flora 
Beach, Harry W. 
Beach, Howard 
Beach, Miss Ada 
Beach, Miss Eva 
Bottome, Frank W. 
Bottome, Mark S. 
Button, Arthur 
Cooper, George H. 
Cooper, Mrs. George H. 
Cooper, Miss Marilla 
Eaton, Robert O. 
Eaton, Mrs. Robert O. 
Eaton, Theophilus 
Edwards, Oliver 
Hemingway, Miss Genevieve 
Jackson, The Rev. Charles W. 
Judd, Nelson 
Judd, Ross B. 
Meyer, Fulbert G. 



Pardee, Mrs. Edwin H, 
Payne, Herbert 
Payne, Miss Mary 
Robinson, Miss Nellie 
Schneider, Alex. 
Schneider, Miss Martha 
Shea, J. Edmond 
Shea, Mrs. J. Edmond 
Smith, Miss Ruth 
Storrs, Mrs. Irving H. 
Talmadge, Miss Bertha D. 
Talmadge, Miss Edith 
Uhl, Miss Aurora 
Uhl, Miss Edith 
Uhl, Miss Augusta 
Uhl, Miss Elizabeth 
Uhl, Louis 
Zuber, Miss Amanda 
Zuber, Ernest 
Zuber, Frank 



NORTH HAVP:N IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 

Mrs. Charles N. Turner, President. 
A'Irs. Payson B. Orcutt, Seeretary. 
Mrs. Frederic H. Brockett, Treasurer. 



Baldwin, Miss Adella 
Bannell, IMiss Anna 
Bannell, Mrs. Samuel 
Bassett, Mrs. Aaron 
Blakeslee, Mrs. Frederic W. 
Blakeslee, Mrs. Zera T. 
Bower, Mrs. Stephen H. 
Bradley, Mrs. Frederic C. 
Doolittle, Mrs. Mary A. B. 
Dunham, Mrs. John J. 
Eliot, Miss ]\Iary W. 
Elliott, Mrs. Whitney 
Fowler, Mrs. Willoughby 
Howarth, Mrs. Alfred A. 
Howarth, Miss Gertrude L. 
Ives, Mrs. Sylvia A. 
Lathrop, Mrs. William G. 
Mansfield, Mrs. Frederic L. 



Maynard, Miss Nellie 
Morse. Mrs. Henry H. 
Shepherd, Mrs. Roswell J. 
Squires, Mrs. Cornelia 
Stevens, Mrs. Mariette 
Stevens, Mrs. William W. 
Sweet, Mrs. Herbert G. 
Thorpe, Mrs. Franklin S. 
Thorpe, Miss Harriett 
Todd, Mrs. George B. 
Todd, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Tuttle, Miss Kate L. 
Vibbert, Mrs. Albert N. 
Vibbert, Mrs. George S. 
Warner, Mrs. Edmund C. 
Warner, Miss L. Jane 
West, Miss Cornelia B. 



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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



QUINNIPIAC COUNCIL, No. 77, O. U. A. M. 

Membership, January i, igoi. 

Charles W. Dudley, Councillor. 
RoswELL J. Shepherd, Secretary. 
Joseph Pierpont, Treasurer. 
Marcus D. Marks, Inductor. 
Edmund J. Dudley, Examiner. 




Abel, E. Stiles 
Bassett, Lorenzo N. 
Bradley, Charles W. 
Blakesiee, Wilbur D. 
Blakeslee, Zerah T. 
Brownell, Charles A. 
Clinton, Edwin J. 
Crowell, Franklin N. 
Cheney, Harry P. 
Cade, Charles T. 
Dickerman, William E. 
Fowler, Lewis L 
Gabaree, Joseph 
Hull, John S. 
Hull, Henry A. 
Keigwin, Henry C. 
Laverty, J. J. 



Laverty, William 
Linsley, Solomon F. 
Leete, William P. 
Leete, George H. 
Palmer, Elizur H. 
Robinson, Henry H. 
Rose, Charles L. 
Smith, Herbert P. 
Stiles, Vernon C. 
Stiles, William S. 
Stevens, Charles T. 
Thorpe, Rufus 
Todd, O. Sherwood 
Vandoran, Benjamin S. 
Vining, Frank A. 
Terrell, Henry C. 
Munson, Willard L. 



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103 



NORTH HAVEN LODGE, No. 01, A. O. U. W. 

Organized 1893. 




Membership. January i, IQOI. 

Michael E. Burke, Past Master Workman. 
Walter M. Sexton, Master Workman. 
Oscar L Smith, Foreman. 
John S. Hull, Overseer. 
JMarcus D. Marks, Reeorder. 
Frederic H. Brockett. Receiver. 
Henry C. Keigwix, Finaneier. 



Ailing, Charles E. 
Avigne, Andrew 
Barber, Joseph 
Barcella, Baptisto 
Barnes, George F. 
Bartek, John 
Beauchamp, Joseph 
Blakeslee, Fred W. 
Blakeslee. John H. 
Blakeslee, Whitney T. 
Blakeslee, Wilbur D. 
Brewster, William J. 
Bruce, Edward 
Bruce, James 
Bruce, Lawrence 
Burns, David 
Case, George C. 
Cheney, Harry P. 
Clinton, Anson B. 
Clinton, David L. 
Clinton, Evelyn B. 
Clinton, Frederick L. 
Cook, Patrick 
Condon, Michael 
Conklin, Frank L. 




MiCHAEI- E. BUKKK. 



I04 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



Connley, John H. 
Corf, Henry F. 
Cummings, John P. 
Daggett, Henry C. 
Darrigan, Patrick H. 
Davis, Frank L. 
Deary. Lewis N. 
Decarli, Lewis 
Dickerman, William E. 
Drinkwine, ^Michael 
Dudley, Charles W. 
Dudley, Edmund J. 
Dumond, William H. 
Eaton, Robert O. 
Eaton, Theophilus 
Ehle, Ernest E. 
Gabaree, Joseph J. 
Gallivan, Daniel P. 
Gerwig, George H. 
Gillette, Merton A. 
Harrison, George N. 
Harrison, Reuben 
Hotchkiss, Delano S. 
Hyde, Albert A. 
Hyde, Lyman M. 
Jiuliani, John 
Kanningiesser, Jacob 
Keane, John 
Larkins, William O. 
Lathrop, William G. 
Leete, William P. 
Maltby, Benjamin J. 
Mansfield, Frederick L. 
Mansfield, Zenas W. 
McCabe, Patrick 



McGinnis, John J. 
McKinnon, Norman 
Merz, George J. 
Moran, Thomas 
Morse, Herbert H. 
Murray, Edward 
Nelson, Walfrid 
Orcutt, Payson B. 
O'Shea. James E. 
Palmer, Elizur H. 
Patten, D. Walter 
Plumley, William H. 
Potter, Hubert F. 
Pritchard, William 
Redfield, Walter M. 
Richards, Eugene 
Rowan, Joseph 
Roberge, George 
Smith, Charles B. 
Smith, Frank L. 
Stevens, Ellsworth 
Schoepfer, Christian G. 
Thomlinson, John A. 
Thorpe, Henry L. 
Todd, John H. 
Todd, George H. 
Tucker, William H. 
Vibbert, Albert N. 
Vibbert, George S. 
Vining, Frank A. 
Weinburg, Fritz 
White, George 
Wilson, Joseph 
Wilson, William 
Wustrock, Herman 



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MEMBERSHIP OF THE CITIZENS" BENEFIT 
ASSOCIATION. 

Organized March 18, 1899. 
Marcus D. Marks, President 
Arthur B. Thorpe, Secretary. 
Charles W. Dudley, Treasurer. 



Barcella. Battisto 
Bassett, Benjamin S. 
Bassett, Herbert I. 
Beers, Harry C. 
Blakeslee, Arthur A. 
Blakeslee. Frederic W. 
Blakeslee, John H. 
Blakeslee, Wilbur D. 
Bradley, Homer S. 
Brockett, Frederic H. 
Cade. Charles F. 
Clinton. Evelyn B. 
Clinton, Robert J. 
Dickerman, William E. 



Dudley. Edmund J. 
Fowler, Willoughby E. 
Gabaree, Joseph J. 
Halloran. Andrew 
Hyde, Albert A. 
Hyde, Everett B. 
Harrison, Reuben 
Harrison, Elizur H. 
Keigwin, Henry C. 
Leete, William P. 
Leete, George H. 
Leonard, Thomas 
Mansfield, Zenas W. 
McGinnis, John J. 




Arthur D. Thorpe. 

Electrician New England Engineering Co. 



Makcus D. Marks. 

Chairman Republican Town Commit lee. 



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John F. Reynolds. 



McKinnon, Norman 
Merz. George J. 
North, Frank B. 
Pierpont, Joseph 
Reynolds. John F. 
Roarke, John F. 
Rose, Willis E. 
Rowan, Joseph 
Shepherd, Roswell J. 
Sherwood, Clarence B. 
Smith, Alex. B. 
Smith, Charles B. 
Smith, Oscar L. 
Stevens, Edwin B. 
Stevens, William W. 
Stiles, William S. 
Squires, Frank C. 
Sweet, Herbert G. 
Thomlinson. John A. 
Todd, George H. 
Todd, John H. 
Todd, William H. 
Vibbert, Stephen S. 




Cemetery. 



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PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. 



Grange No. 35. 



Organized 1885. 



Charles N. Turner, Master. Mrs. L. Peet Tuttle, Lecturer. 
Charles H. Thorpe, Secretary. Henry D. Todd, Treasurer. 

Names included within brace are those of husband and wife. 
Names in itahcs indicate maiden name of woman. 



Barker, Mrs David O. 

Barnard, Miss Bertha J. 

Barnard, James F. ) 

Barnard, Alice Cark S 

Barnard, James H. 




Charles N. Tuknkk. 

Master Grange No 35, P. of H 

Allen, D. Frederick 

Allen, Hobart B. 

Bailey, Walter M. | 

Bailey, Sarah S/iu't/i ) 

Ball, Edwin L. 

Ball, Catherine J. Chipman 

Bannell, Miss Anna M. 



Henry D. Todd. 

Veteran of the Civil War. 
Member G. A. R. 
Ex-Selectnian and Town Agent. 



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Barnes, Miss L. Genevieve 
Barnes, Robert N. | 
Barnes, Ella Shares S 
Bassett, Benjamin S. 
Bassett, Harriett Ba?uu'I/\ 
Bassett, Jared B. 
Beach. Miss Bessie L. 
Beach, John H. 
Beers, Harry C. 
Bigelow, Miss Glenna M. 
Bigelow, Miss Grace L. 
Bishop, Edwin 
Bishop, Erus 

Bishop, Joseph E. ) 

Bishop, Margaret Stuart ) 
Bishop, Miss Lucy M. 
Bishop, Walter H. { 

Bishop, Kittie St urges S 
Blakeslee, Arthur A. ) 
Blakeslee, Flora Foot S 
Blakeslee, Arthur C. 
Blakeslee, George D. 
Blakeslee, George N. 
Blakeslee, Hobart ) 

Blakeslee, Elenora Allen S 
Blakeslee, Mrs. John H. 
Blakeslee, Miss Ruby A 
Blakeslee, Wilbur D. \ 

Blakeslee, Alice Mayiiard) 
Blakeslee, Zera T. \ 

Blakeslee, Eliza Tuttle S 
Bormann. Miss Ottillie M. 
Bradley, Mrs. Charles W. 
Brockett, Albert B. • \ 

Brockett, Edith MansfieldS 
Brockett, Ernest R. ] 

Brockett, Elizabeth Sanford S 
Brockett, Frederic H | 

Brockett, Charlotte Bishop I 
Brockett, Hobart J. 
Brockett, Mrs. John E. 
Brockett, Luzerne A, 
Brockett, Miss G. May 
Brockett, Myron R. 
Brooker, Alfred W. / 
Brooker, Inez Clinton ) 
Bruce, Edward B. 



Bruce, Lawrence W. 
Bunnell, Russell R. 
Button, Arthur 
Carlson, Alfred }_ 

Carlson, Georgianna 01 sen \ 
Cai'lson, A. Herbert 
Carlson, Harold 
Clark, Mrs. Charles 
Clinton, Andrew D. ) 
Clinton, Lucy Bishop S 
Clinton, Anson B. | 
Clinton, Mary Stiles f 
Clinton, Bessie E. 
Clinton, Burton D. 
Clinton, D. Lawrence } 
Clinton, Frances VibbertS 
Clinton, Edwin J. \ 

Clinton, Eliza ArtlnirS 
Clinton, Elbert 
Clinton, Elizur Z. \ 

Clinton, Ella Palmer S 
CHnton, Evelyn B. \ 

Clinton, Florence Redfield S 
Clinton, Friend \ 

Clinton, Helen Clark S 
Clinton, H. Wilson 
Clinton, Isaac B. \ 

Clinton, Grace AllenS 
Clinton, Lovell E. 
Clinton, Robert J. } 

Clinton, Mathilda Olsen S 
Corf, Henry F. ] 

Corf, Stella Crowell S 
Cook, George S. 
Culver, Benjamin A. 
Culver, Vivian W. 
Cummings, John T. 
Dickerman, Miss Grace L. 
Dickerman, Mrs. William E. 
Eaton, Miss Cora A. 
Eaton, Roberto. ] 

Eaton, Carrie Granniss i 
Eaton, Theophilus ) 

Eaton, Bertha Robinson S 
Frost, Mrs. Clarence N. 
Frost, G. Irving 



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Frost, John P. [ 

Frost, Julia Gra/tniss S 
Goodsell, Wilson E. \ 

Goodsell, Fannie Beach ) 
Goodyear, Miss Ethel A. 
Goodyear, Dr. Robert B. / 
Goodyear, Ellen Hotchkiss ) 
Harrison, Burdette 
Harrison, Elizur H. 
Harrison, Hai'old S. 
Harrison, John C. 
Heaton, Edward L. 
Heaton, James 

Hemingway, Frank W. \ 

Hemingway, Elfrida Heaton S 
Hemingway, Miss Genevieve 
Hemingway, Miss Laura J. 
Hull, Edward P. | 
Hull, Carrie Rolf S 
Hull, Henry A. 
Hull, ]\Iiss Minnie Delight 
Humiston, Myron W. ) 
Humiston. Jessie Lane S 
Jacobs, Frederic E. 
Jacobs, Miss Jane A. 
Jacotis, Miss Susan C. 
Jones, Daniel A. 
Keigvvin, Clarence H. 
Keigwin, Henry C. 
Keigwin, Herbert A. 
Kennedy, Daniel 
Lane, Alfred A. 
Lane, Wilbur A. ] 
Lane, Belle Tiittle ) 
Larkins, William O. \ 

Larkins, Emma Hiibbell S 
Leete, Miss Harriett L. 
Mansfield, Edwin S. 
Mansfield, Wilford B. 
Marks, Marcus D. 1 

Marks, Sylvia SJiepherd f 
Marks, Nathan H. ) 

Marks, Martha Cooper ) 
Marks, William H. 
Morse, Henry C. 



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Eiii/ev 1 



Munson, Frederic B. ) 
Munson, Sarah Mills S 
North, Frank B. ) 

North, Meta Unger 'S 
Olson, John W. 
Olson, Per. A. \ 

Olson, Hannah Andcrsoii > 
Orcutt, Payson B. 
Palmer, Elizur H. 1 

Palmer, Sarah Robhison ' 
Pardee, William E. 
Patten, D. Walter 
Patten, Erminie Em ley 
Potter, Hubert F. ) 

Potter, Catherine Brockett T 
Potter, Walter F. 
Richardson, Ernest S. 
Richardson, Ervin H. 
Roarke, John F. 
Roarke, Miss Agnes B. 
Schneider, Miss Martha 
Sexton, Mrs. Walter M. 
Shepherd, Mrs. Franklin J. 
Sherman, Charles G. \ 

Sherman, Adelia Exc an brock \ 
Sherman, Guy A. 
Smith, Alexander B. } 
Smith, Ada Goodyear S 
Smith, Mrs. Emanuel 
Smith, Frank L. 
Smith, Martha Ciilv, 
Smith, Herbert P. \ 
Smith, Mary Johnson ) 
Smith, Herbert W. 
Smith, Miss M Grace 
Smith, Miss Martha J. 
Smith, Robert W. > 

Smith, Elizabeth StilesS 
Smith, Stephen A. \ 
Smith, '$>\isa.xi Bishop \ 
Spencer, Mrs. Elizur A. 
Stevens, William W. ) 

Stevens, Blanche CI ml on S 
Stiles, Mrs. George W. 
Stiles, Miss Clifford R. 
Stiles, Vernon C. 



ver ) 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



Thorpe, Alfred L. 
Thorpe, Mrs. Franklin S. 
Thorpe, Miss Harriet L. 
Thorpe, Miss Ruby V. 
Thorpe, Walter F. 
Todd, Mrs. Elizabeth Gill 
Todd, George H. 
Todd, Mrs. Henry D. 
Todd, John H. 
Todd, Mrs. Mary Wiley 
Todd. William H. 
Tucker, George 
Turner, Mrs. Charles N. 
Tuttle, Burdette R. 



Tuttle. Edwin 

Tuttle, Miss Ina G. 

Tuttle, Julian W. ] 

Tuttle, Charlotte Blakeslec f 

Tuttle. Miss Kate L. 

Tuttle. L Peet 

Warner, Edmund C. ) 

Warner, Vestina Wooditig S 

Warner, Frederic A. 

Warner, Miss Jane 

Warner, Wilson H 

Wiley, John 

Wooding, Leonard B. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Ill 




Herbert Barnes. 

Fair Haven, Conn. 



E. Henry Barnes. 

New Haven, Conn. 




Louis R. Hemingway. 



Dr. E. H. Bidwell 

Practicinir Plivsician. 



NORTH HAVE.V IN THE NINETEENTH CENTLRY. 



FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. 



Resident. 



January i, 1901. 
Compiled by Gen. E. D. S. Goodyear. 



Abell, Oliver, 
Bailey, Sanmel. 
Ball, Edwin L., 
Bassett, Jared B., 
Blakeslee, John H., 
Blakeslee, Whitney T., 
Blakeslee, Frederic W., 
Bradley Homer S., 
Clinton, Anson B., 
Clinton, David L., 
Clinton, Frederic L,, 
Collett, Thomas, 
Dickerman, William E., 
Eaton, Robert O., 
Eaton, Theophilus, 
Foote, Frank W., 
Gillette, Merton, 
Goodyear, Ellsworth D. 
Goodyear, Robert B., 
Harrison, Reuben, 
Heaton, Charles, 
Heaton, Julius W., 
Hemini^'way, Louis R., 
Hull, Porter G., 
Kipp, William, 
Lathrop, \\'illiam G., 
Lord, Austin, 
Lusk, William, 
Marks, Nathan H., 
Merz, Georqe J., 
Miller, Aumist B., 



Wooster Lodge, No. 71) 

Corinthian Lodge, No. 103 

Adelphi Lodge, No. 63 

^Meridian Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

Dayspring Lodge, No. 30 

Dayspring Lodge, No. 30 

Corinthian Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

Day Spring Lodge 

Hiram Lodge, No. r 

Adelphi Lodge 

Adelphi Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

St. Mark's Lodge, No. 91 

S., Hiram Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

Dayspring Lodge 

Adelphi Lodge 

Hiram Lodge 

Conn. Rock Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

Compass Lodge, No. 9 

Princeton Lodge, No. 3 

Corinthian Lodge 

Corinthian Lodge 

Adelphi Lodge 



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i'3 



Patton, D. Walter, 
Pierpont, Joseph, 
Potter, Hubert F., 
Redfield, Walter M., 
Reynolds, John F., 
Rig-gs, Horace, 
Robinson, W^illard A., 
Rowan, Joseph, 
Smith, Herbert P., 
Squires, Frank C, 
Stiles, Edgar H., 
Stiles Ezra L., 
Stiles, Frank L., 
Stiles, George W., 
Thomlinson, John A., 
Thorpe, Gardiner E., 
Thorpe, Rufus, 
Thorpe, Sheldon B., 
Tucker, Dennis W., 
Turner, Charles N., 
Tuttle, L. Peet, 
Uhl, John A,, 
Wooding, Leonard B., 



Corinthian 


Lodge 


Dayspring 


Lodge 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Harmony Lodge, 


No. 21 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Adelphi 


Lodge 


Dayspring 


Lodge 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Corinthian Lodge 


Dayspring 


Lodge 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Hiram 


Lodge 


Trumbull Lodge, 


No. 22 


Adelphi 


Lodge 


Corinthian 


Lodge 


Conn. Rock Lodge, 


No. 93 


Olive Branch Lodge 



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A COMPLETE ROSTER OF THE VOLUNTEERS 
IN THE CIVIL WAR, i86i-i8(3S. 

Who were either born in North Haven, or at any time resided in 
the town previous to enhstment. 



I. 


Andrews, Judson B., 


77th N. Y. Inf. 


2. 


Barnes, Charles M., 


27th Conn. 


3- 


Barnes, Luzerne S., 


6th Conn. 


4- 


Barnes, Stuart. 


15th Conn. 


5- 


Bassett, Hobart A., 


15th Conn. 


6. 


Bassett, Seth B., 


I St Conn. Heavy Art. 


7- 


Blair, Joseph O., 


5th Conn. 


8. 


Blakeslee, Julius, 


I St Conn. Heavy Art. 


9- 


Bradley, Edgar S., 


15th Conn. 


TO. 


Bradley, Ellsworth H., 


3d U. S. Regulars 


II. 


Bradley, Henry E., 


15th Conn. 


12. 


Bradley, Theodore, 


7th Conn. 


13- 


Brockett, Charles A., 


15th Conn. 


14. 


Brockett, EH I., 


15th Conn. 


15- 


Brocket, George E., 


27th Conn. 


16. 


Brockett, Horace W., 


27th Conn. 


17- 


Brockett, James H., 


15th Conn. 


18. 


Brockett, William, 


15th Conn. 


19. 


Brockett, William E., 


15th Conn. 


20. 


Burke, Edmund, 


15th Conn. 


21. 


Clarke, Elbert C, 


Naval Service 


22. 


Cleary, Thomas J., 


15th Conn. 


23- 


Cooper, Harvey E., 


15th Conn. 


24. 


Cowles, Edward O., 


15th Conn. 


25- 


Cowles, Henry E., 


1 8th Conn. 


26. 


Culver, Henry, 


15th Conn. 


27. 


Doolittle, Isaac L., 


15th Conn. 


28. 


Doolittle, Jesse T., 


15th Conn. 


29. 


Eaton, Frederic G., 


7tli Conn. 


30- 


Erost, Alva, 


15th Conn. 


31- 


Goodyear, Edward L., 


loth Conn. 



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0^lLiY A MEMOF^Y ]S10W, 




■»i25r#^. 



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117 



32. Goodyear, Ellsworth D. S., 

33. Goodyear, Robert B., 

34. Goodyear, Walstein, 

35. Goodyear. F. ^^'^lbur, 

36. Gilbert, John P., 

37. Gill, Henry B., 

38. Gill, George T., 

39. Gill, William H., 

40. Hart, Henry C., 

41. Hartley, Henry B., 

42. Higgins, James, 

43. Hills, Russell, 

44. Hoadley, Harvey S., 

45. Hotchkiss, Amos S., 

46. Hovey, \\'illiam B., 

47. Hovey, Walter P., 

48. Howarth, Alfred H., 

49. Hnnie, Adolph F., 

50. Jacobs, Charles W., 

51. Jacobs, John T., 

52. Jacobs, Egbert, 

53. Jacobs, Marcus A., 

54. Judd, Truman O., 

55. Lamm, Adam, 

56. Linslcy. Jacob F., 

57. Linsley, Samuel AL, 

58. Mansfield, William L., 

59. Marks, Nathan H., 

60. McCormick, John, 

61. Morgan, George, 

62. Morse, Augustus G., 

63. Morse, William J., 

64. O'Brien, Thomas, 

65. Palmer, Merwin E., 

66. Palmer, Nathan A., 

67. Pardee, Milton B., 

68. Phelps, William P., 

69. Riggs, Horace, 



loth Conn. 

27th Conn. 

I St Conn. Heavy Art. 

7th Conn. 
99th N. Y. 

7th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
27th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn, 
loth Conn, 
ist Conn, 
loth Conn, 
loth Conn. 

6th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
1st Conn. Heavy Art. 
27th Conn. 
15th Conn, 
loth Conn. 
27th Conn. 
27th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
14th N. Y. 
15th Conn. 

5th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
27th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
27th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
T5th Conn, 
ist Conn. Heavv Art. 



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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



70. Robinson, Riley A., 

71. Rogers, Leverett M., 
'J2. Rogers, William A., 

73. Smith, Elbert J., 

74. Smith, George W., 

75. Smith, Henry E., 
'](>. Smith, James E., 
JJ. Smith, Alerton L., 

78. Smith, Oliver T., 

79. Smith, Sanford B., 

80. Stiles, Ezra L., 

81. Stiles, Henry H., 

82. Thorpe, Edwin A., 

83. Thorpe, Rufus, 

84. Thorpe, Sheldon B., 

85. Todd, Beri, 

86. Todd, Henry D., 
^y. Todd, Kirtland, 

88. Tucker, Dennis W., 

89. Tuttle, Henry F., 

90. Tuttle, Merwin W., 

91. Voght, Justus, 

92. Waters, Horace, 

93. Ford, Roger M., 



27th Conn. 
1st Conn. Heavy Art. 
15th Conn. 
27th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn. 

7th Conn. 
15th Conn, 
loth Conn. 
15th Conn. 
13th N. Y. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
27th Conn. 
27th Conn. 
27th Conn. 
27th Conn. 
15th Conn. 
U. S. Navy 
27th Conn. 
U. S. Regulars 

8th Conn. 



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119 



VETERAN SOLDIERS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 

1801-1865. 

Residing" in North Haven, January i, 1901. 



27th Conn. Inf. 

1st U. S. Cavalry 

1 2th Conn. Inf. 

1st Conn. Heavy Art. 

27th Conn. 

4th U. S. (colored) 



Barnes, Charles AI., Musician 
Beach, Joel E. W., 
Beaumont, Francis, Private, 
Blakeslee, Julius, 
Brockett, George E., 
Brown, William H., 
Dains, George W., 
4th N. Y. Cavalry — 23d Conn. Inf. — 3d Light Battery 
Doolittle. Isaac L., Private, 15th Conn. Inf. 

Goodyear, Ellsworth D. S., General, loth Conn. 

Goodyear, Robert B., Sergeant, 
Higgins, James, Private, 
Howarth, Alfred H., Corporal, 
Hyde, Albert A., Corporal, 
Jacobs, John T., Private, 
Jacobs, Collis M., Private, 
Judd, Truman O., Private, 
Lehane, Jeremiah, 
Linsley Solomon F., Lieut., 
Marks, Nathan H., Musician, 
Palmer, Alerwin E., Private, 
Riggs, Horace, Private, 



Smith, James E., Private, 
Spencer, A. H., 
Stiles, Ezra L., Private, 
Storrs, Hector W., 
Thorpe, Rufus, Private, 
Thorpe, Sheldon B., Sergeant, 
Todd, Henry D., Private, 
Tucker, Dennis W'., Private, 
Uhle, John A., 
Vibbert, Albert N., 
Vibbert, George S., 
Wilcox, Charles C, 
Yale, Edward C, 



27th Conn. 

15th Conn. 

6th Conn. 

6th Conn. 

27th Conn. 

8th Conn. 

27th Conn. 

3d N. Y. Cavalry 

15th Conn. 

15th Conn. 

15th Conn. 

1st Conn. Heavy Art. 

7th Conn. Inf. 

24th Conn. 

13th N. Y. Cavalry 

22d Conn. 

15th Conn. 

15th Conn. 

27th Conn. 

27th Conn. 

6th Conn. 

7th Vermont 

15th Conn. 

1st Mich. Cav. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 



Elected for 3 years. 



George J. Mcrz, 1898 

Frank W. Foote. 1898 

Isaac E. ^Mansfield, 1898 

Dr. R. B. Goodyear, 1899 

John A. Thomlinson, 1899. 

Walter H. Bishop, 1899. 

Julian W. Tuttle, 1900. 

George H. Cooper, 1900, 

O. Sherwood Todd, 1900. 

John A. Thomlinson, Chainnan of Board. 

Dr. R. B. Goodyear, Secretary and Acting Visitor. 




Dr. Robert B. Goodyear. 

Veteran of the Civil War. 

Member New Haven County Medical Societv. 

Superintendent of Public Schools. 



norih haven in the nineteenth century. 12 1 

District No. i. 
Committee — ^^^ ^^^ Stevens, Collector and Treasurer. 
Clerk — Lewis I. I'Owler. 
TeaeJier — January session — ^liss Clara L. ]\Iunson, $9,00 per 

week. 
Enumeration in 1900, 27. 

District No. 2. 
Committee — R. N. Barnes, Collector and Treasurer. 
Clerk — Charles N. Turner 

Tecteher — January session — Charlotte Barnes, $9.00 per week. 
Enumeration in 1900, 21. 

District No. 3. 
Committee — Eflwin H. Pardee, Collector and Treasurer. 
Clerk — George L. Barnes. 
Teachers — January session — ]\Iiss Edith Cook, room 2, $10.00; 

]\Iiss Ruth Smith, room i, $9.00. 
Enumeration in 1900, 95. 

District No. 4. 
Committee — George J. Merz. 
Clerk— L. Peet Tuttle. 
Teaehers — Januar}- session — ]\Iiss Adella Baldwin, room i, 

$11.00; Miss Anna liannell, room 2, $9.00; ^liss Anna L. 

Goodyear, room 3. $11.00. 
Enumeration in 1900, iio. 

District No. 5. 
No School. Enumeration in 1900, 8. 

District No. 6. 
Committee — Lewis G. Tuttle, Collector and Treasurer. 
Clerk — Jesse B. Jacobs. 

Teacher — January session — ]\h-s. Elorence Tuttle Baldwin, $9.00. 
Enumeration in 1900, 24. 



122 north haven in thk nineteenth century. 

District No. 7. 
Comiiiittcc — Andrew Halloran. 
Clerk — Robert E. Dickerman. 
Teacher- — January session — Miss Florence Landon, $9.00 per 

week. 
Enumeration in 1900, 34. 

District No. 8. 
Coiiiiiiitfce — Joel E. W. Beach. 
Clerk — Oliver Abel. Treasurer and Collector. 
Teacher — January session — Barbara Kuebler, $10.00 per week. 
Enumeration in 1900, 71. 




The Rev. James B. Reynolds. 

Graduate of Yale Divinity School, iS88. 

Head Worker University Settlement, N. Y. City. 

Chairman Citizens' Union, New York, 1897. 

Member New York Bar. 

Member New York Tenement House Commission. 



Miss Annie M. Reynolds. 

Graduate Wellesley Collepe. 
E,\-Secretary Brooklyn Young Women's 

Christian Association. 
E.\-Secretary Iowa Y. W. C. A. 
The World's Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. 



JNUKIH HAVEN IN THP: NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

POST OFFICES. 

Post Office at Xorth Haven Centre. 
Location, Clinton's Block. 
Third Class — Salary, $1,500.00. 
William P. Leete, Postmaster. 
Elizur C. Harrison, Assistant. 
John H. Blakeslee, Carrier, Rural Delivery. 

Alails close. 



Mails arrive. 
6.56 a. m. South and \\'est. 

8.15 a. m. South and West. 8.00 a. m. 

9.16 a. ni. Xorth and East. 9.00 a. ni. 
1 1. 17 a. m. South and West. i.oo p. ni. 
1. 14 p. m. Xorth and East. 3.10 p. m. 
3.26 p. m. South and West. 8.00 p. ni. 
6.30 p. m. Xew Haven, Conn. 

Office Hours Holidays — 7.30 to 9.30 a. ni. ; i.oo to 2.00, 6.30 
to 7.30 p. m. 



Xorth and East. 
South and West. 
South and West. 
X'orth and East. 
South and West. 




William P. Leete. 

Postmaster. 



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John H. Blakkslee. 

Mail Carrier, Rural Delivery. 



Elizur C. Harrison. 

Assistant Postmaster. 




David L. Clinton. 
Postmaster. 



George H. Cooper. 

Postmaster. 



north haven in the nineteenth century. 125 

Post Office at Clixtowille. 
Established 1871. 

Location, Medicine Co. lUiilding-. 
Third Class — Salary, $1,400.00. 
Gross receipts year 1900, $3,200.00. 
David L. Clinton, Postmaster. 

Mails arrive. Mails close. 

8.05 a.m. 9.08 a.m. 

1.15 p.m. " 6.24 p. in. 

Post Office at Montowese. 

Established 1871. 

Location, Cooper's Block. 

Eourth Class. 

George H. Cooper, Postmaster. 

George W. Dains, Assistant. 

Mails arrive. Mails close. 

9.42 a. m. 7.54 a. m. 

5-30P-m- 7.54 a. ni. 



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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CONCERT. 

The concert planned by the Committee for the evening of 
December 31, 1900, was found to be impracticable. A postpone- 
ment was therefore made to February 15, igoi, and the former 
evening was given up to a public meeting in Memorial Hall, 
•watch-night services in the Congregational Church Chapel, and 
the arranged-for salute and bell ringing at 12 o'clock midnight. 

The latter event began promptly on time under the direction 
of S. F. Linsley, Chairman of the Amusement Committee, with 
Arthur B. Thorpe, Chief Gunner. Forty-two rounds were dis- 
charged. The night was mild and moonlight. Sounds of can- 
non were heard in various directions, and it was an ideal time in 
which to welcome the advent of the new century. Dwellings were 
illuminated, and most of the townspeople were abroad enjoving 
the novel scene. 

Rehearsals for the contemplated concert began at once under 
the direction of F. H. Stiles and A. B. Clinton. These were 
prosecuted with vigor, and on the evening of February 15, 
Memorial Hall was filled with a large audience. The range of 
music was wide, and gave great satisfaction. 

PROGRAM. 

OLD FOLKS. 

T. March, ....... Orchestra 

2. Old Lang Syne. 

3. Invitation. 

4. Sons of Zioii. 

5. Shelbourne. 

6. Suwanee River, . . Solo by Miss Genevieve Barnes 

7. Strike the Cymbals. 

S. All Bound Round H. E. Woodford 

■9. A Country Dance. 




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Miss May Elcock 



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SECULAR. 

10. Orchestra (Crushed \'iolets) 

11. Dream. ..... 

12. On High the Stars. 

13. Selected, James Pierce. Jr. 

14. Ring-gold, E. H. c^- L. I. Stiles. F. Squires &: H. W. Clinton 

15. Slumber Uoat, W. Sperrv 

17. The Lost Chord. 



MINSTRELS. 

18. Orchestra (Coontown Capers). 

19. Once More, J. Pierce. Jr. 

20. PHney, E. H. Stiles 

21. Cindy. Frank Squires 

22. Mandy Lee, W. Sperry 

21. My Jersey Lilly, H. E. Woodford 

24. Dixie Kidd, F. Squires, E. H. Stiles, L. L Stiles, W. Sperry 

25. Fve Waited, Floney J. Pierce, Jr. 

26. Every Nation has a Flag but a Coon, . . E. H. Stiles 



R. O. Eaton, Interlocutor. 



Bones. 

H. E. Woodford, 

E. H. Stiles, 
F. Squires, 
L. ]\Iunson, - 
W. Stevens. 

F. H. Stiles, Director. 



Tambos. 

W. Sperry, 

J. Pearce, 

L. L Stiles, 

J. H. Tomlinson, 

H. W. Smith. 

A. B. Clinton, Accompanist. 



H. Wilson Clinton. Leader of Orchestra. 



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THE CALIFORNIA GOLD HUNTERS. 

Of the twelve men who visited Cahfornia in search of gold 
1849-1852, but a single survivor exists — John E. Brockett. His 
companions were Henry B. Fowler, Franklin Shepherd, Charles 
Heaton, Frederic Shepherd, George Mix, Daniel Barnes, Chaun- 
cey Barnes, William Mansfield, Anson Button, Burritt Brockett, 
Alexander Robison, and Samuel Hale. 

Fowler, the two Shepherds. Heaton and Alix, started about 
April I, 1849, via the "Overland Route." They left Independ- 
ence, Mo., April 15, in a wagon drawn by several pairs of un- 
broken Texan steers, guided with ropes tied to their horns. 
These animals were not unyoked till after three weeks of hard 
service. The journey lasted four months, the little company 
reaching Sacramento the middle of August. Heaton died soon 
after arrival. The others separated for the mines. 




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111 tlie same year — 18^9 — r)Utt(in. jolni K. and liurritt 
Crockett, sailed in the schooner Emma Packer from Fair Haven, 
Conn., by tlie way of Cape Horn for the g'old coast. The vov- 
age was long- and tedious, but they reached their port safely. 
Later, the two Barnes', Robison, IMansfield, and George W. 
Brockett, made the journey by water around the Cape. On their 
arrival the country was found flooded with adventurers who had 
poured in from every (juarter of the glol)e. Alining was at a 
discount, and they with thousands of others turned their atten- 
tion to trade. Most were successful. 

The return of these men was mainly by way of the Isthmus 
of Panama. Fowler became sick within a year after his arrival 
in Sacramento and started for home. He was carried on a litter 
by the natives across the isthnms and placed on board a steamer. 
Recovering, he made a second trip there in 1852. Chauncey 
Barnes died on the return voyage and was Inu-ied at sea on the 
Pacific side. 



THE CLAY INDUSTRY. 

In one form and another, clay has been a factor in the com- 
mercial world since the dawn of history. It will probably con- 
tinue to be so while man exists. During the past century its 
manufactured products reached a liigher stage than in all the 
preceding years combined, and because it is certain that the pres- 
ent century will see its development in forms and ways unknown 
at present, allusion is made to it at this time. 

Its manufacture in this town dates from 1725. and the honors 
of proprietorship are equally divided between one Seelev and 
Nathaniel Thorpe, Jr. They made building l)rick, and building 
brick have continued to be matle in increasing (juantity every 
decade since that year. The output of The I. L. Stiles & Son 
Brick Co., for the }ear 1900, was not far from 18,000,000. This 
product for the most part found a ready market in Connecticut, 
tliough heavy orders were shipped to Rhode Island and Eastern 
Massachusetts. 

These brick were made by what is known in New England 
as "the soft mud process," ^ and burned with wood in the old 



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132 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

Style open kilns. Attempts have been made to use eoal and oil 
in firing, but without success. From five to six thousand cords 
of wood are used annually by the abo\e firm at prices ranging 
from three to four dollars per cord. Two hundred hands and 
more are emplo}ed in the busy season, and from fiftv to seventv- 
five the entire year. Most of the brick used in the construction 
of the large buildings of Yale University are the products of this 
yard. 

A branch at Taunton, Mass., has recently been established — 
a corporation — with a capacity of from ten to twelve millions 
annually. These find a market in Boston, Providence, and 
vicinitv. 




Frank L Stiles. 

President of The I. L. Stiles & Son Brick Co. 
President of The Stiles & Hart Brick Co. 



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CLOVER DAIRY FARM. 

Clover Dairy Farm is the name which Mr. D. W. Patten has 
bestowed uixjn 225 acres of as fair soil as lies in Xew Haven 
County. This tract was once a part of the Rev. James Pier- 
pont's possessions. It fell to his son. Lieut. Joseph, then to his 
son Giles — then to Giles, Jr., father of Munson Edward Pierpont, 
the distinguished jurist and diplomat. Hence the grounds are 
liistoric. Xot only this, but the}" are charming in scenery. 
\Miat with hill, river, meadow, and the conmiodious dairy and 
farm buildings dotting the landscape, it presents the picture of 
an ideal country home. 

Mr. Patten is a graduate of Yale S. S., '87 — Ex-Member 
General Assembly 1899 — Member State Board of Agriculture — 
State Pomological Society — State Dairymen's Association, and 
present first selectman and town agent. 




Birthplace Hon. Edw.vrds Pieri'o.m. 




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130 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

THE VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 

The Village Improvement Association was organized in 
iVpril. 1892. It grew ont of the needs of the people in the more 
immediate center of the town, for street lamps and sidewalks. 
The Hon. Isaac L. Stiles was elected its first president. Funds 
were freely contributed by the citizens, and the principal streets 
were lighted by naphtha lamps in July of the same year. 

Since then the Association has been annually increasing in 
value to the community. By the death of Air. Stiles in 1895 a 
trust fund of $500.00 was established for its benefit. It operates 
at present about fifty public lamps within a radius of half a mile 
from the post ofifice, and has recently laid, with the assistance 
of property owners, not far from three thousand yards of substan- 
tial concrete sidewalk. Its present officers are : 

The Rev. Louis A. Parsons, President. 
Marcus D. Marks, Secretary. 
Joseph Pierpont, Treasurer. 



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Residk.nce of Wh.liam E. Dickf.kman. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. I37 

GENERAL E. D. S. GOODYEAR.' 

Member General Assembly, 1868. 

Registrar of Voters since 1886. 
Ellsworth D. S. Goodyear is the eldest of seven sons of Beia 
and Delia A. (Gill) Goodyear. He was born in North Haven, 
April 28, 1827. 




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Gknf.kal E. D. S. Goodyear. 

In 1846 he became associated with Charles. Henry, and Nel- 
son Goodyear in the manufacture of India rubber articles, where 
he participated in many of the experiments resulting' in discov- 
eries which have smce made the name of Goodyear famous in 
connection with the development of the rubber industries. Mr. 
Goodyear thus describes the discovery of the process of making 
hard rubber: 

"Manufacturers of rubber had long been trying to devise 
some means bv which rubber could be hardened sufificientlv to 



' It was early determined by the committee that this volume should be neither a biographical 
or advertising medium. If departure is charged in this instance, it is because the matter of 
hard rubber is of worldwide importance, and the military record that of a brave soldier. 



138 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINEIEENTH CENTURY. 

be made useful as a substitute for whalebone. While studying 
in Liebig's chemistry the sul^ject of the preparation of sulphur, I 
found that sulphur melted a second time at 310° of heat, and 
cooled in shellac form. It occurred to me that here might be 
the solution of the hard rubber problem, and upon making the 
suggestion to Henry B. Goodyear, he arranged with the engineer 
to have the steam pressure high enough during the night to 
reach 310°. I prepared six one-pound packages of gum, adding 
to the first 2 ounces of sulphur, to the second 4 ounces, and to 
the others in succession 6, 8, and 10 ounces. These mixtures 
were rolled into sheets about an eighth of an inch thick, placed 
between sheets of tin, wrapped in rubber cloth, the whole put into 
a small steam boiler and subjected to 310° of heat, at which point 
it was kept for eight hours. \Mien the package was eagerly 
opened, the sheets were found to be of varying degrees of hard- 
ness ; those of the lesser amounts of sulphur were flexible, while 
the sheet composed of i pound of gum and 8 ounces of sulphur 
was the best of the lot. Because of the brittleness of the material 
it failed to take the place of whalebone, but it formed the basis 
of the rublier button business as well as of the thousand and one 
other uses to which hard rubber is now applied the world over." 
On the breaking out of the war in 1861 Mr. Goodyear entered 
the service as Captain of the C Company, loth Regiment of Con- 
necticut Volunteers, and served continuously, except for one inter- 
val of six weeks, to the end of the w^ar. His regiment served in 
the Departments of Xorth Carolina, 1862, and South Carolina in 
1863, and was in the siege of Alorris Island and Fort Sumter. 
The night after the evacuation of the Island by the Confederates 
a night attack was planned on Fort Sumter. The duty was 
assigned to the 24th Massachusetts and the loth Connecticut 
Regiments. Captain Goodyear was selected to lead the forlorn 
hope of opening the attack on the city face of the fort, and, if 
successful, to remain in the fort with one hundred men until 
relieved. This expedition, in boats and barges, with 1.200 pounds 
of powder with which to blow down the gate of the fort, was 
within 300 yards of its destination when the Xavy commenced 
an attack on the fort. As it had been previously arranged be- 
tween the commanding Admiral and General that whichever 
party arrived first should not be interfered with by the other, the 
Army had to abandon the project. 



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39 



In 1864 Captain Goodyear was promoted to Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the same reg'iment. At the breaking' up of the war, the 
Colonel beinp,- absent on leave, he was in connuand of the regi- 
ment at Hatcher's Run, when they were ordered to assault Fort 
Greg-g-, the last fort of the inner line of defenses south of Peters- 
burg". With 180 men and 12 officers lie made a lodgment on the 
south ang-le of the fort and held on for forty-iive minutes until 
other troops in sutlicient numbers were brought up to carry the 
works. This was one of the most strongly contested points in 
the whole line. There were 23 stands of colors on the fort before 
the enemy surrendered. Out of the 180 men and 12 officers 
under Lieut. -Col. Goodyear's conunand. 118 men and 8 officers 
were either killed or wounded. He himself was here shot 
through the rig^ht shoulder, sustaining severe and permanent 
injuries.- 

He was brevetted Colonel for "Meritorious services during: 
the war," and Brevet Brigadier-General for "Especial gallantry in 
the assault on Fort Gregg, April 2, 1865." 





Fkeukric C. Bradley. 

Lineal descendant of Major William Bradley, 
New Haven Colony. 



Gkokgk B. Tudd. 

Lineal descendant of Christopher Todd, 
New Haven Colony. 



2 See History loth Conn. Vols. 



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Edward L. Linslky, Attorney. 

Eorn North Haven March 21, 1S58. 

Died October 18, igoo. 

Was graduated Yale Law School 1878. 

Assistant Clerk New Haven City Court 
1883-1893. 

Ex-State President Young Men's Repub- 
lican Club. 

Ex-Town Clerk. 

Trial Justice Local Court. 

Prosecuting Attorney New Haven County. 

Chairman Twentieth Century Committee 
on Literarv Exercises. 




O. H. D. Fowler, Attorney. 

Corn North Haven January 17, 1857. 
\\'as graduated Yale S. S. 1878 
Was .yraduated Yale Law School iSSi. 
Member of New Haven County I'ar. 
Ex-Judge Prolate Court, District of Wal- 

lingford. 
Practicing Attorney, Wallingford, Conn. 



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C. A. Brockett. 

President C. A. Urockett Cement Co., Kansas City, iMo. 




Gardinkk E. Thorpe. 

The Bradstreet Co., Ijoston. 



Frank E. Hall. 

Agent Pass. Dep't X. V., N. H. & H. R. R. 
Grand Central Station, N. Y. Cily. 




Edgar A. Hemingway. 

Ex-Selectman. 



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143 



PETER'S ROCK. 

This eminence near the southeastern border of the town, has 
recently come into pul^hc notice as affording" one of the most 
pleasing" landscape views seen from its snnmiit. It rises abrupt Iv 
from a somewhat rocky ridge and owes its formation to volcanic 
agency. Doubtless its elevation was once much greater than at 
present, indeed, if as asserted. East and ^^'est Rocks in past ages 
had an altitude of one thousand feet or more, then Peter's Rock 
may lay claim to an equal height. Its present elevation above 
tide water is about 400 feet. 

The appearance of this bluff bears evidence of untold cen- 
turies of denudation. Its boldest face is upon the western side 
^^^lere singular colunmar formations are seen, not conunon to 
other trap rock upheavals in the county. They resend^le in form 
somewhat the basaltic pillars of the Giant's Causeway in the old 
world. 



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liii. Hkkmh At;i,. (Prii,K> R-hk.) 



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145 



In the early days of the New Haven Colony it was a noted 
Iiidian outlook. Later it became known as "Great Rock"' — 
"Rabbit Hill" or "Rabbit Rock." So far as ascertainerl, one 
Joseph Granniss was an early owner. He gave the settlers of 
"Muddy River" privilege to quarry stone for their buildings, and 
cut firewood for their use without expense. A rude highwav 
was opened on the eastern side, the southern extremity of which 
reached the shore in East Haven, while the other end, eupho- 
niously known as "Pig Lane," extended up into North Haven. 




WaiTNKv Ei.Liuir. 

Ex-Selectman and Town Agent. 
State Senati r Sixth District, 1867. 
Chairman Centennial Committee, i£ 



Hknrv JI- Bi,AKi:.>Lhi:, 
Born 1813. 



Among the farmers who settled along this thoroughfare, was 
Peter Brockett, who claimed to own the rock, and from whom 
it gained its present nan.ie. lirockett was a Revolutionary sol- 
dier, and a severe wound had so deformed his spine as to render 
him a cripple. He was something of a hermit l:)esides, and lived 
in a rude hut, the ruins of which are still to be found at the 
northern base of the more rocky bluff. The late Jesse O. Eaton 
recalled having seen him on many occasions. 

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146 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

On or about the year 1873, the town ordered a general assess- 
ment. Messrs. Whitney ElHott, W'iUis B. Hemingway and 
Henry M. Blakeslee were appointed to do the work. They 
reported "Peter's Rock" as being in the possession of Jude 
Cooper's heirs, and placed a valuation upon it. In due time a 
tax was laid, but no one could be found to pay it. Accordingly the 
tax collector, L. Peet Tuttle, ordered the property sold at auction, 
and it was bid off by George W. Jones, 'August 31, 1874. 

Soon after, the citizens of Muddy River not relishing the dis- 
posal of the real estate in that manner, and particularly of the 
Granniss franchise which they claimed, came into the annual 
town meeting in October, 1874, and voted to redeem the property 
for the benefit of the town. This was accomplished in 1875, Mr. 
Jones receiving $31.78 as reimbursement. 

Such in brief is the town's alleged claim to this now valuable 
possession. A portion of the summit has been leased for several 
years to a number of Xew Haven gentlemen who have erected 
an elegant club house on its summit styled "The Hermitage." 
The view from this point is of surpassing beauty. Neither East 
nor West Rocks furnish anything like it. 



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TuEopHii.rs Eato.x. 
Ex-Selectman. 
E.x-Member General Assembly, two terms. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



OLD HOME WEEK. 

The following general observance of "Old Home Week" is 

planned : 

Sunday. June 2d — Children's Day. 

Tuesday Evening, June 4th. 

Dramatic Entertainment in Memorial Hall by P. of H., No. 
35. At this time the Drama "Our Folks" will be produced under 
the direction of Miss M. Grace Smith, by the following cast: 

Capt. Sleeper, Mr. L. Peet Tuttle. 

Capt. Thompson, Mr. Edwin S. Mansfield. 

Harry Thompson, Mr. Herbert W. Smith. 

Teddy Sleeper, Master Harold Harrison. 

Hiram Small, Air. Frank B. North. 

Phil, Mr. Ellsworth J. Smith. 

Mrs. Capt. Thompson, Miss Ina G. Tuttle. 

Mrs. Capt. Sleeper, Mrs. E. A. Spencer. 

Becky Sleeper, Miss Cora A. Eaton. 

Hulda Prime, Miss Susan C. Jacobs. 

Silly York, Miss Rosa C. Stiles. 
Music by the North Flaven Orchestra. 

Wednesday, June 5th — Outing Day. 

This day is designed to afford an opportunity for visiting,, 
sight seeing, and social enjoyment. 

Thursday, June 6th — General Holiday. 

Order of the Day. 
Sunrise- — Salute on Pierpont Park. 

8 a. m.^ — Assembling of Parade on Broadway. 

9 a. m. — Parade. 

10.30 a. m. — Exercises in Congregational Church. 



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149 



1. Music. 

2. Invocation, 

3. Music, 

4. Welcome, 

5. Music, 

6. Historical Address, 

7. Music, 

8. Miscellaneous. 

(). Hymn, America, 

10. Issue of Memorial \'olume. Price $1.00 

12 m. — Collation in Memorial Hall. 



Program. 

Band. 

The Rev. William G. Lathrop. 

Public School Children. 

Robert O. Eaton, Chairman. 

Band. 

Sheldon B. Thorpe. 

Public School Children. 



Audience. 



2 p. m. — Public meetinQ- in Cong-regational Church, at which 
the Rev. William Lusk will preside. Eminent speakers from 
abroad will make addresses. 




Edmund c. \V akmk. 

Ex-Selectman. 

Fruit Grower and Pomologist. 



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ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY THE CHAIRMAN 
OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 

Robert O. Eaton. 

North Haven at this "Twentieth Century and Old Home 

Week Celebration" is proud of and congratulates itself on its 

past History. Many of its sons aided England against the 






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Hon. Hobart B. Bigelow. 

Born North Haven May 16, 1834. 

Member General Assembly for New Haven 1875. 

Mayor of New Haven 1879-1880. 

Governor of Connecticut 1881. 

Died 

French, and later the colonies in their struggle for independence. 
From the 17th day of June, 1775, to the present time, the people 
of this town have been patriotic, enterprising and progressive, 
ever ready to do their duty to their God, their Country, their 
family and their fellow-man. 



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151 



During the dark days of 1861-1865, when the safety and 
honor of the Nation was threatened, nearly one hundred of our 
sons laid aside business pursuits, abandoned financial prospects, 
severed social relations, and assumed the uniform and duties of 
a soldier's life, — to protect and preserve the government our 
fathers had provided for us. Some of those boys who wore the 
blue are here to-day at this celebration, no longer boys as in 
"61," for their heads are fast becoming sprinkled with gray hairs, 
vet honored in their declining vears for the sacrifice thev made 



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for us and those who are to come after us. Many of them have 
gone on that journey whence none can return, but though their 
names may become dimmed, their deeds and their achievements 
grow brighter and richer with each advancing year. In their 
honor, the citizens of North Haven have erected the beautiful 
hall that will stand for the years to come, — an appropriate 
memorial. 

North Haven has furnished to the country men of promi- 
nence in business enterprises, advanced leaders in scientific in- 
vestigation, and its quota to the literar} world. To the church 



152 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

it has g-ivcn some of its profound thinkers, pulpit orators and 
reHgious workers. From those l)orn within its l^orders. have 
been drawn men who have served the State in ofifiees of trust and 
responsibihty, in various positions from the bottom of the ladder 
to the office of chief executive of this Commonwealth. It has 
been represented in the legislative halls of this State one hun- 
dred and fourteen years, and by its descendants, in many other 
states of the Union, more than a century. It has furnished a 
president of Yale College, an ambassador to the Court of St. 
James, a financier of high order, and a banker, the founder of 
our public library. But this list by no means covers the citizens 
of the tOAvn who have gained eminence in other directions, and 
who are as proud of their nativity as we are of their record. 

While we rejoice in our history as a town, and the success 
of her sons and daughters, we feel that we are living, not in the 
past, but in the present, with our faces turned toward the future, 
and never were times and opportunities more encouraging nor 
our outlook more promising. We look forward to the future 
with the brightest anticipation. Her citizens to-day are keep- 
ing step with the progress of the times, loyally supporting 
churches and schools, preserving the old ancestral land-marks, 
beautifying their homes and enriching their farms, building 
macadam roads, laying sidewalks, maintaining a free ])ul)]ic 
library and street lamps, also Free Rural Mail delivery. 

Electric roads run into the town as well as steam roads 
through several sections of it. Her inhabitants are energetic and 
happy, ever remembering the fact that they are a part of this 
grand old Commonwealth, which was one of the thirteen original 
States of the Union. 

We rejoice that we are American citizens, a part of the grand- 
est and most progressive republic on the face of this earth, and 
with such sentiments and under the favorable circumstances that 
have been enumerated, I welcome you all here to-day on behalf 
of the citizens of the Town of North Haven, to our Twentieth 
Century and Old Home Week Celebration. We extend to you 
a sincere and cordial reception. May your visit among us be 
pleasant and enjoyable, believing that when the day's exercises 
shall have closed and we shall once more separate to our several 
homes, we shall each appreciate more that ever the glorious 
privileges we now enjoy and the successes attained. 



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153 




Ancient Mill on the Muddy River Near the Old Bkjelow Homestead. 




Michael Bikke 

Veteran Baggage Master North Haven R. R 
Station. (Retired ) 




(By pdnnissloii from North Havi-n Annals) 

TuF. Oi.u Mf.kting Hol'sk of 1742. 



HISTORICAL .ADDRESS 

i;v 

SHELD(3N B. THORPE. 

DELIVERED IN THE 

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 

NORTH HAVEN, CONN., JUNE, iqoi, 

As part of the Public Services held in Commemoration of the 
opening of the Twentieth Century. 




SiIKI.DdN B. Till iRi'l,. 

Veteran of the Civil War. 
Author North Haven Annals. 
Author History 15th Reg't Conn. Vols. 
Ex-Member General Assembly. 
Member Post 17, G. A. R. 



When Jonathan Ralph — "Dr. Ralph" as he was more com- 
monlv called, thous^h \\ithout warrant for the title — walked from 



156 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

his house at the northwest cdrner of the Green^ down to the old 
meeting house of 1742, to ring the nine o'clock bell on the even- 
ing of December 31, 1800, he was but following a custom which 
had prevailed in the parish fifty years, possibly longer. On that 
night we are assured by one- who kept a pr^^e weather bureau 
of "aftercasts," that "it was clear and modd^ely cold — a light 
snow lay on the ground." But Mr. Ralpl¥*+fad on his "pea- 
jacket" and woolen mittens, and "Having once undergone the 
rigors of a campaign in the Revolutionary war, doubtless paid 
little attention to the weather. The "new stepel" of the meeting 
house rose white and cold in the starlight, and our bell-rmger 
carefully setting down an old battered tin lantern, drew from his 
pocket a long iron key and unlocked the creaking door in the 
steeple tower. The bell rope dangled just inside and ]\Ir. Ralph 
knew exactly how far to advance in the darkness, how to clutch 
it, and with a few vigorous strokes ring the "curfew bell." On 
some summer nights, it is said, the near-by children would cau- 
tiously steal around the corner to watch the old veteran sway the 
clanging bell, and then go scudding home on nimble feet, for not 
only must the household fire be covered at that signal, but the 
children must be in bed. 

Who heard the tones of that curfew bell one hundred years 
ago? According to the Grand List there were in the year 1800, 
one hundred eighty-three men who paid a poll tax in the town, 
one hundred fifty-nine of whom were enrolled in the First 
Ecclesiastical Society and twenty-four in the Episcopal Society. 
These persons owned about two hundred houses, all apparently 
having more or less dwellers in them — generally more ! Per- 
haps if the atmospheric conditions were suitable, all this people 
were within reach of the tones of the curfew. Those who did 
not hear it, probably dwelt at Muddy River and walked by faith. 

And yet the parish was not wholly dependent on this system 
of chronology, for there were five clocks of the first-class and six 
of the second-class in 1800; besides, there were twenty-three 
watches. But the possession of these timepieces gave our cur- 
few rineer no concern whatever. Although owning neither 



* Site of the Reynolds Estate. 
'Jeremiah Ailing. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTUKY. 157 

clock nor watch himself, he rose superior to all such frail mechan-' 
isms and rang the hour by"intuition"(?),as it is related that either 
he or "Granny Ralph" — his wife— would run nig-htly across the 
street to Dr. Joseph Foote's house to "borry the time," and then 
at such an interval as seemed suitable to him, the nine-o'clock 
bell would be rung-. The service finally became so erratic that 
the people headed 15)' Dr. Trumbph arose in their wrath and de- 
posed Dr. Ralph from his position. 

This custom of an evening- l^ell continued till about 1830. The 
increased number of timepieces in the community, and the grow- 
ing- tendency of the citizen to regulate his own down-sittings and 
up-risings, swept it away. A few" are still living who remember 
hearing the well known peals as they rang out on the stillness of 
a summer night. 

Aly townsmen ! the curfew annoiuicing the close of the nine- 
teenth century rang but a little time since. The echoes of can- 
non and bell, as the}- gave notice at midnight in De- 
cember last that a new century was born, mav be still sounding 
in the ears of these children. A new Century ! Who compre- 
hends it ? \\^hat issues are concealed within it ! what revelations 
to be made by it ! what beneficence to flow from it ! for that it 
i^'ill be beneficent poet and prophet are agreed. 

Happy America ! whose people entered upon the Golden Age 
one hundred years ago ! Happy America ! whose sons have seen 
in the century just closed a period more significant than anv in 
historic time. Happy America! and O happy children who have 
now entered upon a cycle of years which will as far outshine the 
last century, as the last outshines all the preceding. Life is 
worth living iio-cV, — has been worth living in the past — and is to 
be doubly enjoyable in the future. Who before me regrets the 
providence that has placed us \\here the centuries meet ! None ! 
For this hour were wc born ! for the next hour others shall rise, 
more competent, larger souled, holier purposed, and better able 
to wing on the world from sin to grace, and grace to glory. 

In the year 1700 the population of this parish was estimated 



3 Mrs. Elniina Thorpe, Henry M. Blakslee, Eras Bishop, and others. 



158 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

as one hundred."' In the year 1800 it was g'iven as eleven hun- 
dred fifty-seven, and in the year 1900 as two thousand, one 
hundred sixty-four.^ This increase is much less than should 
be expected in two hundred years. Indeed, it may be said, that 
with the advantage of locality, nearness to tidewater, varied sur- 
face, and close proximity to city privileges, the population should 
be double the present census, and even more. 

Two causes have operated to retard our growth. First, a large 
emigration to northwestern Connecticut ; and second, the natural 
conservatism of the settlers and their descendants. An emigra- 
tion began about 1740, which continued up to 1800-1810. Dur- 
ing this period many of the most respected families" removed to 
other localities. They were people whom the town could illy 
afford to lose, because they added wealth and character to the 
parishes where they settled. 

Probably of these emigrants none had greater influence in the 
community whither they went than Thomas Blakeslee and 
Thomas Ives. The former was the son of Ebenezer Blakeslee, at 
whose house' both the Congregational and the Church of Eng- 
land* people earh' worshipped. 



* In 1790 — ist census— there were 595 males, 626 females, 7 slaves, and 8 " others " 

^ Census report. 

" Caleb Humaston, removed to Plymouth, Conn., soon after 1738 



Lieut. John Humaston, 


" 




1736 


Dea. Moses Blakslee, 


" 




1739 


Rev. Samuel Todd, 


" 




1740 


William Luddington, 


" 




1738 


Jonathan Frost, 


•' 




1735 


Ebenezer Frost, 






1744 


Hezekiah Todd, 


" Wolcott, 


" about 


^7:4 


Jehiel Tuttle, 


" Torrington, 


" " 


1770 


Major Isaiah Tuttle, 


" 


" 


1773 


Ezra Pierpont, 


" Walerbiiry, 




1780 


Giles Brockett, 


" 




1803 


James Bishop, 


" Farmington, 


" before 


1780 


John Seeley, 


" Gt. Harrington, 


Mass , 


17Q1 


Isaac Seeley, 


" " 


" 


1799 


Abraham Seeley, 


" " 


" 


1798 


William Crane, 


" 


" 


1794 


Samuel Ives, 


" 




1793 



Joel Thorpe removed in an ox cart to Ashtabula County, Ohio, 
about 1800. He was killed in the war of 1812. 



^ Eccl. Soc. Records, page 3. 

« North Haven Annals, page 130. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 159 

He was born in the year 1700 and went to Plymouth in 1731. 
He married Mar}' Scott of Sunderland, Mass. They had nine 
children. He received the title of Captain in the State Militia in 
1740, and his house was palisaded as a defence against the 
Indians. He was one of "nineteen proprietors" who built the 
first meeting" house in Pl}inouth'' and called the Rev. Samuel 
Todd of Xorth Haven to preach in it. When an Ecclesiastical 
Society was organized there later, its members desired a meeting 
house in a different location. The proprietors objected, but were 
outvoted, and Captain Blakeslee with eleven others withdrew and 
formed a Society of the Church of England. In 1811-1812 
descendants of his founded Plymouth, Ohio, and organized an 
Episcopal Church there. He died in 1778. 

Thomas Ives was the son of Thomas and Anna (Heaton), 
born in North Haven, 1753. He was graduated from Yale Col- 
lege 1777; served in the Revolutionary war; studied law in 
Litchfield, and was admitted to the bar in that county. In 1782 
he settled in his profession in Great Barrington, Mass.'" He 
married Ruth Foster, a lady of high birth and much influence in 
JMassachusetts politics. He became a member of the General 
Assembly and served in both houses. He also was identified 
with the militia and rose to the rank of major-general of the 
Ninth Division. In other ways he received honor from town, 
state, and nation. 

The record of emigrant families given falls much short of the 
actual number. Dr. Trumbull wrote^^ that about 150 families 
left the parish between 1760 and 1800. It is difticult to account 
for this shrinkage. We can imagine how dift'erent our surround- 
ings would be to-day had they remained, but the human tide was 
destined to ever flow outward from New England, and so our 
fathers arose, almost as by divine im]ndse, and gat them to lands, 
in one sense, they knew not of. 

It will be material at this time to note, for a moment, the 
administrative element in the early part of the last century. Ec- 
clesiastical influence in home att'airs did not wholly cease at our 
incorporation (1787). The spell of authority which the New 



' Atwater's Plymouth, pages 29 and 31. 
1" History- Gt. Barrington. 
" Century sermon. 



i6o 



NORTH HAVF.N IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



Eiig-land divine exercised, particular!}- in the country villages, 
remained potent until well alon^- in the centur}-. The intent of 
the New Haven colonists that the Church should furnish the 
foundation for all civil government, found a supporter in Dr. 
Benjamin Trumbull. He was something of a dictator — probably 
less autocratic than his predecessor, the Rev. Isaac Stiles, yet by 
virtue of birth — war record — literary ability, and pulpit prestig^e, 
was able to dominate largely in secular matters. And this he did 
almost single handed. His church in 1800 was at a low ebb and 




gradually declining. The First Ecclesiastical Society organized 
in 1 716 and the Church of England Society organized in 1759, 
were apparently more engaged in swapping members to avoid 
taxation, than promoting the spread of the gospel. The Grand 
Lists of the town are complete from 1787 to the present year. 
Originally every adult male was compelled to identify himself 
with one or the other of the societies for purposes of taxation, and 
as there were two tax collectors for some years, and apparently a 
difference of a farthing or two in the amounts to be gathered, we 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



i6i 



have surprising evidence of the nimbleness of some of our fathers 
in jumping- from one society to the other and then back again, 
as it appeared best for their interest. This athletic exercise 
ceased about the year 1814. 

With the death of Dr. Truml)ull in 1820 the ecclesiastical 
hand in town government was still further withdrawn, only to 
wholly vanish during the great revival under the Rev. William 
J. Boardman. The separation of Church and State became com- 
plete when the town voted in 1834 "it would no longer pay for 
ringing the Presbyterian church bell." 

A second view of the evolution of the town may be had from 
manuscripts unexpectedly discovered. In the year 1800 the 
population was 1,157, as said. There was received by the select- 
men from taxation, and from the sale of old highways, $856.80. 

The expenses for twelve paupers were, . . $264.79 



For highways, 
For sundries, 
Balance in treasury, 

In 1803 the receipts were, 
The expenses were, 
Balance in treasurv. 



17346 
231.38^- 

187.17 



$804.98 



$586.72 
218.26 



In 1805 the Town Treasurer was paid $5.00 for services and 
the Town Collector $13.00. 

In 1806 the authorities pared taxation so close that but 
$527.91 was received. The expenses were $538.75, leaving the 
first deficit tlie town incurred. The following year this was re- 
covered and a surplus established. Xo other audits are discov- 
ered until the year 1867, when the town issued its first printed 
report. 

In the }ear 1900, with a population less than twice that of 
1800, there was received from all sources^' . $33,369.09 
The liabilities were, .... 54.580.98 



Debt of the town. 



$21,211.89 



'2 Includes $10-50 paid Dr. Ralph for ringing churcli bell. 
'3 Town Report, igoo. 



l62 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



■ The above indel^tedness stands mainly for seven and a half 
miles of rock ballasted, stone bridged hig-hways. constructed at an 
average cost of $5,000.00 per mile, and second to none in the State. 
The first attempt at road paving on any considerable scale was 
begun in 1871. Oyster shells were used on the main highway 
in the third school district under the direction of A. F. Austin, 
Selectman. In the year 1872, 7,395 bushels were so applied at 




Lawrkxce Bklce. 

Highway Contractor. 



Andrew F. Austin. 

Member General Assembly, 1882. 
Selectman and Town Agent 15 years. 
Ex-Superintendent Public Schools. 
Present Trial Justice, with 42 years' record. 



an average cost of one cent per bushel. This amount was in- 
creased year by year until in 1876 it reached 15,185 bushels. In 
1878, 13,735 bushels, and in lesser amounts until 1881, when the 
roads were let by separate contract in each district. This plan 
proved more economical than satisfactory, and in 1888 Lawrence 
Bruce was employed to take entire charge. ^Macadamizing with 
crushed stone began in 1889. Since then at intervals, with and 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 163 

wirliont State aid, the town has constructed most (hn-al)Ie mad 
bed where before only sand or sloug'h existe(b 

The early roads of the parish were not much more than IjricUe 
paths. Even in 1800 they were in deplorable condition. The 
original survey of New Haven Colony contemplated a system of 
''squares" 80 rods by 160 rods with broad highways between. 
Rivers and ledges offered no objection. The routes were ])lotted 
whether the settler followed them or not, and that he did not, is 
in evidence by the freciuent changes the selectmen of tiie towns 
made. This left considerable areas which the thrifty authorities 
turned to account by leasing portions tcmjiorarih- or selling the 
grass thereon. Just when the first highway tax was laid is un- 
certain. In 1830 one mill on the dollar was ordered "worked 
out" under the direction of district surveyors. This plan con- 
tinued twenty years, but w^as little more than a farce. The aged 
residents leaned on their shovels, chewed tobacco and guessed 
where the work ought to be done. The }'ounger men sat on 
their ploughs and bragged how much their oxen could draw. 
This "meet" was usually held twice a year, spring and fall. In 
1801, however, if a heavy snowfall occurred, the farmers gathered 
with their teams, broke out the roads and donated their labor. 
In 1901, if snow falls, whoever removes an}- from the highway. 
seeks the selectmen the first opportunity and demands payment. 

COAmON .SCHOOLS. 

It is to be hoped the present centur_\- will devise some system 
of common school management, productive of results commen- 
surate with the funds employed. More money has been ex- 
pended in teaching "the infant mind to shoot" in countr_\' district 
schools, — with less returns, — than in any other ])ublic undertak- 
ing. The First Ecclesiastical Society opened four schools in 
1720. It conducted educational matters until I7<j6. when a 
School Society^'* was formed and entrusted w ith the management. 
This body appointed the school committees until 1838. when the 
privilege was given to the districts. In other respects it 
remained the governing power tmtil 1833, when the Society v/as 



!■* Record complete. 



164 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

abolished and the tOAvn assiinied charg'e through a Board of 
School \^isitors. Whether our condition is more regrettable 
than that of neighboring towns, the fact remains, that according 
to population, we have had, and have to-day, a less percentage of 
collegiate scholars than we should have a right to expect. Our 
children cannot atone for the defect, but they can make the com- 
ing years illustrious through the pulpit, the l^ar, the counting 
room. "North Haven is not a dying town !" ^° The blood of 
the old colonists still lives ! God grant it may find higher expres- 
sion than ever to the honor and renown of the Twentieth Century. 

MILITIA. 

In the year 1800 we had a militia company then nearly a cen-- 
tur\' old. It was formed in 1718 ^" and had furnished an innu- 
merable quantity of military titles to citizens of the parish. The 
great army of captains, lieutenants, ensigns who aired their 
honors on all possible occasions, owed their rank to this com- 
mand. Many an old commission is now proudly exhibited as 
evidence of "Special trust and confidence" reposed by the State 
in the appointee. This militia company provided volunteers for 
the French War, the Revolutionary War, the 1812 W^ar, and the 
Civil War. Its parade ground was the west half of the Green. 
Here the doughty warriors drilled under the colors of England, 
or stacked their "Queen's Arms" on the sward, while they read 
royal proclamations nailed to the meeting house door. 

Then came the "days that tried men's souls," and by and by 
there broke out at the head of that stahvart company one muster 
day, the gladdest sight North Haven eyes had ever beheld — the 
Stars and Stripes of the new Republic ! and under that flag 
marched Trumbull and Pierpont and Bassett and Thorpe and 
Barnes and Blakslee and Brockett, and more than fourscore 
others whose names deserve to be cut in enduring granite and 
set as a memorial on yonder market place where they once con- 
gregated. 

We have no accurate roster of this old compan\- until 1828. 
In that year Eliada Sanford was captain, David T. Bishop lieu- 

1^ Century Sermon — Rev. W. G. Lathrop, page 19. 
1" Records First Eccl. Soc. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



1^>5 



tenant, and Alfred Tliorpe ensign. It is designated at thai date 
as the 4th Company, loth Regiment, Connecticut MiHtia. Then 
follows a muster roll of one hundred fifteen names. ^' In 
1838 a petition signed by ninety-three citizens was presented to 
the Adjutant-General of the State to allow the formation of 
another company. The prayer w'as granted and they organized as 
the 2d Light Infantry, loth Regiment, Connecticut Militia. Then 
v^as seen what, perhaps, no towni in the county — possibly in the 
State — could parallel, a community with a population of 1,340 
furnishing two militia companies of over one hundred men each. 
The parade ground of the new command was designated in 1839 
as "The Public Land near and in front of the Episcopal 



i' Sergeant Josiah Todd 
" Stephen Cook 

" George Tuttle 

" Jared Bassett 

Corporal Lyman Thorpe 
Jacob Dooiittie 
" Wm. Garry Bassett 
Musician Aniasa Thorpe 
" Asahel Pierpont 

" Sidney Smiih 

Bassett, Anson 
" Isaac 
" Philanso 
" John 
" Sharon 
Willis 
" Zenas 

Beach, William 
" Hubbard 
" Sharon Y. 
" Cyrus 
Barnes, Daniel 
■' Jesse 
" Levi 
" Chauncy 
Blakslee, Philemon 
" Abraham 
" Evelyn 
" William 
" Benjamin 
David 
Bradley, Miles 
" Henry 
" Eri 
" Merlin 
" Barzillai 
Bates, Lewis 
Brockett, Luman 
" Levi 



Bishop, Justus 
Button, John 
Bigelow, Levi 
Cooper, Martin 
Cooke, Homer 
Clarke, Ammi 
Dayton, Jonathan, 2d 

" Lewis 

Dickerman, Merit 
Ford, Roger W. 
Finch, Daniel N. 
Frost, Leverett 
" John, 2d 
Goodsell, John 
Goodyear, Bela 
Hotchkiss, Francis 
Hough, Alonzo B. 
Heaton, Julius 
Hull, Jarvis 
Ives, Harvey 
Jolinson, Henry 
Jacobs, Russell 
" Joseph 
" Ammi 
" Roswell 
Lincoln, Edward 
Marks, Riley 
Mansfield, Liverius 

" Ebenezer 

" John L. 

" Jared 

Mi.x, Benjamin 

" Samuel 
McCoy, William 
Moulthrop, Albert E. 

" Merit 

Alva 
Munson, George 



Pardee, John, Jr. 
Pierpont, David 
" Elias 

" Asahel 

" Jared 

" Miles 

■Sala 
Phelps, Ira Bryan 
Riggs, Joshua 
Robinson, Jesse 
Sackelt, Milo 
" Butler 
" Joseph, 2d 
Smith, Ebenezer 
Henry P. 
" Lyman, 2d 
" Hiram 
" Jude B. 
Sampson, John 
Stiles, Harvey 
Thorpe, George L. 
" Harvey 
" Cyrus 
" James H. 
" Anson C. 
William D. 
Todd, George 
Beri M. 
" Orrin 
" Samuel B. 
Tuttle, EnosT. 
" Ithimar 
Zera P. 
Willis 
Thompson, William S. 

Walter 
^Varner, Orrin 
Wolfe, Henry D. 



1 66 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 




Plioto by Tliorpe. 



Penn Phelps Place. 




Photo by Thorpe. 



Ji)H.\ Smith House. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 167 

Church."^- The senior company dressed in black and scarlet, the 
junior in l;lue and white, hence the "North Haven Blues." They 
strove to outdo their rivals in drill and maneuvre, and the story 
goes, so efficient did they become that at a General Training held 
on the "Wallingford Plains" in 1843, the battalion became so 
hopelessly entangled in a complicated movement, that the com- 
manding officer. Colonel Bishop, losing his military dignity and 
patience, shouted, "Tenth Regiment halt ! do as the North 
Haven Blues do," whereupon Captain Justin Marks gallantly 
marched his company out of the snarl and shortly had the entire 
regiment lined up in magnificent order. 

In these years, 1835-1845, military "pomp and circumstance" 
reached high water mark. With the advent of the younger com- 
pany, the older had nothing from which to recruit its ranks, and 
disbanded about 1848 after one hundred thirty years of existence. 
Its rival also declined and gave up the ghost in 1851. Its local 
color is deposited in the rooms of the Memorial Library. 

To-day's review of the nineteenth century would be incom- 
plete did we fail to briefly contrast its beginning with its closing 
davs. In 1801 the farm houses for the most part were of large 
frame. A portion had the lean-to roof, while others rose up 
square, gaunt and unpainted, perhaps like the integrity of their 
owners. /\gain, under the shelter of some friendly hill stood low, 
rambling buildings, painted red by man, brown by the storms, 
and green by" the drapery of summer, the whole betokening an 
ancient strain of blood in the master, who all unwittingly had 
reproduced some lowly home of old England. The chimneys — 
"smokes" — of these houses appear to us unduly large. Many 
had a stone base twelve feet or more square. Sometimes this 
material formed the entire structure, but I have seen but a 
single instance^'^ in this town. Outside blinds to windows were 
imknown then, and the faded green paper shade hung in its glory. 
A narrow^ "hood" over the door, or sometimes an inconvenient 
"front stoop," were the external ornamentations. Now we have 
the elegant lace curtain, and the light lattice behind which at any 
ansfle, our women mav safelv view their neighbors. \\'e have the 



'8 See Order Book. 

" House of John Smith, now demolished. 



l68 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

capacious piazza and the overhanging^ balcony. Turret, tower, 
gable, finial. rise in unexpected places, sometimes harmonious 
and sometimes — otherwise. In the beginning of the nineteenth 
century the people dwelt in rear rooms and cold unfurnished 
chambers. There was lack of chairs, lack of tables, lack of 
closets. The front door of the dwelling rarely opened except 
at the summons of w-edding or funeral. Now how changed. 
Carpets, draperies, cushions, sunlight, heat, music, flowers and a 
thousand luxuries adorn our homes and give life a charm the 
"good old times" never knew. 

In the beginning of the nineteenth century the farm barns 
were ill-conditioned, unpainted and usually placed on a hill. 
To-day, many excel in convenience and finish the dwelling of a 
century ago. Then, the farmer did not dehorn his cattle, use 
patent fertilizers, plant market gardens, run milk routes, or attend 
Pomona Granges — but he does now ! His wife did not have a 
"separator" in the dairy, a "sweeper" in the closet, a "wringer" 
in the kitchen, or a chance to vote ; but she docs now ! 

In the beginning of the nineteenth century the farmer killed 
his pork in the "new moon" — shaved himself Saturday afternoon 
— sued his neighbors — and slept in the meeting house Sundays ! 
but he does not in 1900. In 1801 his wife w^ore a "poke" bonnet 
— took snuff — made her owai yeast — weaned her own children — 
and reared a large family ! but she does not now ! 

In many essentials the old order of things has changed. The 
lightning rod (common enough down to 1850) has disappeared 
from our roofs and the insurance sign from above our doors. 
Man has not secured entire immunity from the destructive forces 
of nature, it is true, but enormously wealthy corporations stand 
ready, with monetary consideration, to assuage the woes caused 
by their ravages. The attacks of "the world, the flesh and the 
devil" need have no more fears for him who is willing to pay 
insurance premium. 

In 1801 the farmer VvTought out his fence rails in the woods 
and built "zig-zag" barriers about his domain at great waste of 
time and material. The cost in most cases exceeded one dollar 
per rod. Now, with posts at fifteen cents each, and wire at two 
cents per pound, he runs long lines of protection about his farm 
at one-quarter the former cost. 



lyo NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

Ill the beginning" of the nineteenth eentury the maiden had 
her ears pierced with a needle some summer day and a thread 
drawn in the puncture. Then "to-rights"-'' she hung rings or 
other emblems thereon, and was happy. In 1845 she put on a 
cameo breast-pin of heroic size, dressed her hair low on her fore- 
head, and had her "daguerreotype" taken. 

Then, they slept on "feather beds" spread on a heavy wooden 
frame with "tester" above and valance below. In 1901 we have 
the sanitary mattress and its glittering metal support. Then, they 
did their marketing on foot with bag and basket. In 1901 the 
grocery, the laundry, the bakery, the market wagon, halts at our 
door and makes life worth living — if we pay the bills. 

In 1 801 personal events had small circulation, except as the 
tongue of gossip wagged. In 1901 no household is sacred from 
the intrusion of the amateur press reporter, who frequently lines 
the way with the carcasses of distorted statements. 

Then, the citizen wdio would write a letter used either a 
pointed piece of lead or a cjuill pen. (He could not buy a steel 
pen until after 1830.) His paper was unruled and his ink of home 
manufacture. Usually he chose a stormy Sunday for the task, 
and it took all day. He folded the paper in most inconvenient 
form, and sealed it with a red wafer. If the "writee" lived ninety 
miles distant the postage was ten cents ; if one hundred fifty miles, 
twelve and a half cents ; if five hundred miles and more, twenty- 
five cents. As late as 1850 we paid no less than five cents, and no 
more than ten cents postage. Our first post office w-as established 
in 1839, in the dwelling now owned by Frederic H. Stiles. The 
mails were flung from stages on the New Haven and Hartford 
turnpike at the point where the road to J\lt. Carmel now crosses 
that thoroughfare. Capt. Seba Thorpe was there to receive and 
transfer them, and Erus Bishop was his bondsman. Later, the 
office was located in the brick house, also used as a depot, when 
the New Haven and Hartford railroad was opened. The news- 
papers were called for at their offices in New Haven, by various 
individuals, and distributed on Sunday. Now, with writing 
papers of the finest texture, — pens of all metals, — pencils so cheap 
we never husband them, — envelopes for the merest fraction of 



""An expression for soon. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 171 

cost.^stamps (used about 1847) ol all denominations, — recep- 
tion and delivery of mail bags by flying trains, — free sulnirban 
delivery,-^ — newspapers containing the condensed events of the 
world laid twice daily at our doors, we seem to have reached the 
summit of swiftness and convenience in dealing with kingdom, 
empire and republic. And yet time and space are to be further 
annihilated as the years roll on. 

The older portion of the communit}' has witnessed some 
remarkable transformations of ways and customs of their ances- 
tors. The old uncouth pestle and mortar for crushing rock salt 
has gone. The hand-mill in which grains of coffee, pepper and 
the spices were ground, is silent. The wheels on which wool or 
flax was spun. — the looms in which the yarn was woven, are 
broken up. The rough trencher, the pew'ter plate, the wooden 
bottle, the iron snuft'ers, and I might almost add, the family 
cradle, have disappeared, except as relics of the past. The doctor, 
with his small fees and large prescriptions, has yielded place to 
the physician, with his large fees and small prescriptions. We 
have seen the heavy booted male watcher thrust out of the sick 
room, and the gentle, trained female nurse, enter to soothe our 
nerves and assuage our ailments. 

The gallop of the heavy farm horse is not heard as of yore 
in our streets, nor do we see the woman of 1800 riding on a 
pillion, but rather, lifting our eyes from the old family Bible"^ 
we are reading on a Sunday evening, we behold automobile, and 
locomobile and motor-cycle and tandem with piercing lamps and 
noisy riders, threading our thoroughfares with incredible swift- 
ness. We do not have our "voices tried" by the old-fashioned 
singing-school master, for that long cherished institution has 
departed from the country schoolhouse, and the chorus choirs 
which sprang from it and sung "Mear" and "China" and 
"Dundee" in the meeting house have become the "choir invisi- 
ble." 

Thev came into the nineteenth centurv with the tinder-box 



21 Rural delivery began in North Haven December 15, 1900. Salary of carrier (John Blakslee), 
S500.00 per year. Iron letter boxes, costing about one dollar each to patrons, are placed convenient 
to the highway. Larger public bo.xes are placed at intersections of main highways No deHvery is 
made within one-half mile of main offices. 

22 Nahum 2:4. 



172 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



and the tallow candle. We went out with the parlor match and 
the electric lig"ht. They came into the century with petty law- 
suits among- neighbors, — with inflexible church discipline, — with 
an iron heel to stamp out the erring and the frail ; we went out 
of the century with kinder hearts, broader lives, and the forgive- 
ness of the Master. 

The woman tailor who made men's clothes and the man shoe- 
ntaker who made women's shoes, no longer sit about our fire- 




rhoto by Heatu 



TiiK Leetk Tavkkx. (Estate Hk.nky F. Tittle ) 



sides drinking weak tea and chewing leaf tobacco. We have seen 
the departure of the old-fashioned almanac, and the entrance of 
the gorgeous calendar. The one gave us intervals of two weeks 
in which to "look out for rain or snow," the other warns us to 
seek immortality through proprietary medicine, or reminds us 
that our grocers are doing business at the old stand. 

We have witnessed the decline of the Fulling mill — the Grist 
mill — the Saw mill — the Cider mill ! but as compensation, we 
have received ten millions of cotton spindles — patent prepara- 



NORTH HAVKN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 173 

tions of the cereals — lumber from the troincs — antl whiskey from 
tlie distiller, "four full (juarts for three dollars and sixtv-nine 
cents."-' We knoAV that from the incorporation of the town to 
i860 the political atmosphere was democratic. Since the Civil 
war the republican wing has had the majority. Once we wanted 
men for office ; now we want office for men. 

One hundred }"ears ago Sabbath Day Houses fringed the 
southern and part of the western border of our Green. The 
venerable. Dr. Trumbull's cider mill was in close proximity to the 
eastermost of these buildings. The mill was a clumsy structure, 
without covering, built upon the lines of the eighteenth century, 
and stood opposite the small lirick house by the brook. 

The apples were crushed by a heavy wooden wheel traveling 
in a narrow trough built in a circle, with a diameter of thirty or 
more feet. This wheel turned upon a long axle, the opposite end 
being pivoted in the center of the circle. Oxen furnished the 
motive power, and it was the small boys' duty to ride on the long- 
arm and see that thev kept moving, \\dien the fruit was reduced 
to the proper pulp, it was shoveled upon a platform, made into 
a "cheese" with straw, and then subjected to all the pressure 
huge wooden screws turned by arm power could give. The 
present strained relations between cider and theology did not 
exist in that day ; indeed, in the quality of "hardness," some have 
come to think they were quite akin in 1801. 

We have witnessed the untimely end of the old-fashioned 
school exhibition, the Lyceum, and the Debating Society,-^ but 
in their place have come up the "Chautaucjua Circle" — the "Uni- 
versity Extension" and the "Wdiist Club." 

We do not now patronize "Turkey shooting matches" at the 
old Leete tavern on the Hartford turnpike, or attend "Balls" in 



^^ Magazine advertisements 

^^ The earliest Debating Society of which any record is found met in 182Q-30, in Amasa 
Thorpe's ball-room. Among the disputants were the Rev. William J. Roardman, pastor of the 
Congregational Church, William Hartley, William Ives, Ward Peck. Eliada Sanford, I'enjamin 
Eastman, James H. Thorpe, David T. Bishop, Jesse Andrews, Jr , Willis Tutile, and twenty 
others, and more. Some of the questions discussed were: 

''Ought the poor to be supported by law" ? 

"Is self-love the moving cause of all our actions" ' 

"Are the abilities of females equal to males" ? 

"Ought slaves in the United States be immediately emancipated" ? 

This society was revived in 1857, and had a run of three years, and a.gain in 187?. 



174 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

Jesse Andrews' once famous hostelry,-'' but we do go to ball 
games — promote euchre parties — and win booby prizes. 

They, saw the citizen of 1800-1840 carried in a whitewood 
coffin on a bier to the burying ground. Few or no words were 
spoken, and the grave was closed while the concourse waited. 
No tribute of regard was displayed, and the expense rarely 
exceeded ten dollars. Xow the deceased is placed in a casket 
and carried in a hearse to the cemetery. Evergreens and drapery 
make wretched attempts to soften the outlines of his narrow 
home. There is no soinid of falling clods. Expensive marks of 
esteem abound ; the people gradually melt away and the under- 
taker sends in a bill of one hundred dollars — or more ! 

When the old housekeepers in the nineteenth century related 
to their grandchildren the story of the da}'S in which they lived, 
they spoke of "cranes" and "trammels" and "hooks" and "peels," 
and the child wot not what ^\■as meant. But these now obsolete 
words stood then for the indispensable fixtures of the old-fash- 
ioned fire-place. The junk man has carried them all away, with 
the big iron kettles they supported, and the "skillets" that kept 
them compau}'. 

In 1849-50 we were rocked from center to circumference of 
the town by the discovery of gold on the Pacific coast. It was 
a theme of more importance than was the }dexican War a year 
or two earlier. Xo one wished any part in the latter — every one 
wished a chance in the former. Twelve of our citizens"" became 
"Argonauts" and sailed away for the "golden fleece," either 
around Cape Horn, or by w^ay of the Isthmus. All returned in 
safety, some bringing wealth and some — experience. 

They came into the nineteenth century with the scythe — the 
sickle — the flail — the quill pen. AVe went out of it with the mow- 
ing machine — the harvester — the thresher — the typewriter. Then. 
they stored no ice, canned no meats, burned no coal, rode no 
bicycle. Old things have passed away ! All things have become 
new ! The shore house, the Sunday paper, the potato bug, the 
hammock, the electric car, the "bargain counter," the buffalo 
beetle, the divorce court, the "new woman," have come into our 



25 North Haven Annals, page 269. 
^^ See page 130. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 1 75, 

horizon, some to bless and some to cnrse. Once, there was 
expressed very httle sentiment and less enthnsiasm at the doings 
of the outside world. Now, we wear badg'es at our collar, display 
the national colors from our dwellings, keep Christmas, and shout 
for Yale University. Once — 1837 — they warned all Irishmen out 
of the town, fined our boys and girls for walking on Sunday,-' 
forbid dancing bears entering the parish, and posted the names 
of drunkards in the tavern bar-rooms. Now, we bring the alien 
and the foreigner to our doors — make cycle paths for our children 
■ — go to the circus — and wink at the beer wagon. 

In the early part of the last century they rode in an oxcart to 
New Haven. In 1820 they went in a wagon. In 1839 they made 
the journey by steam, paying fifteen cents to the New Haven and 
Hartford railroad for second-class fare in the "Jim Crow car," 
and twenty-five cents for a first-class ticket in the passenger cars. 
They could make but one trip daily. In 1901, for fifteen cents we 
may be whisked dowri to the metropolis nine times each week 
day,-*" between the hours of 6.30 a. m. and 11 p. m., and twice on 
Sunday. 

In 1800-1810 many of the principal men of the town borrowed 
money, usually from Yale College.-^ The town. also, and the 
First Ecclesiastical Society made loans to parties, usually of small 
amounts and for a limited time. 

In 1850 there was a toll-gate on the ]Middletown turnpike near 
the house of John Todd in the second district, and on the Hart- 
ford turnpike near the house of Air. Hart in the sixth district. 

In the beginning of the last century a few varieties of the 
apple and the pear were the fruits grown. Expansion along this 
line has been truly wonderful. The berry, the cherry, the peach, 
the plum, the grape, the melon, have climbed to royal heights as 
luxuries and become great factors in the commercial world. 

In the beginning of the nineteenth century the thrifty mother 
turned a bowl over her boy's head and snipped off all his locks 
outside the rim. This was a "New England hair cut." The 



2" Records Justice Courts. 

28 A. M. 6.2q; 7.34; 8 58; 11.26. P. M. i 58; 4.46; 6.29; 8.^9: 11 01. 

29 1807. Samuel I\foulthrop. . § 556.50 1807 Philemon Plakslee, . S 619.31 
1808. Abraham Bishop, . 850.00 1807. Philemon Pierpont, . 1.112.35 
1807. Ezekiel Jacobs, , . 540.03 



176 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 

remarks incident to the occasion were mainly made by the pro- 
testing lad, and it is now supposed that this barbarous practice 
caused more boys to run away to sea than all other causes com- 
bined. 

But with the waves of reform that have come rolling in upon 
us for a hundred years to wash away the ancient landmarks, it is a 
joy to find that the old Christian names of our ancestors have 
been but little disturbed. The Johns and Williams and Henrys 
of the past are the Johns and Williams and Henrys of the present. 
Mary and ]\Iartha and Esther and Ruth are forever immortalized 
m Hebrew story, but our Alarys, and our Marthas are far dearer 
to us. Their sweet names drift us back through the century, and 
the years suddenly become peopled with the women who helped 
make the town. We see their coimtenances duplicated in their 
granddaughters' faces. Their tones are reproduced in their 
grandsons' voices. Their worn Bibles are their biographies, and 
the old-fashioned lilac is their monument. We are never far awa}.' 
from the life they lived, for great influences never die. 

Enough of these contrasts ! The}' are suggestive in the 
highest degree. Whether the changes which have been wrought 
shall redound to our glory, this new century is to decide. That 
merciless jury "The survival of the Eittcst" will try every plan 
and theory as never before, v/hether it be good or whether it be 
evil. But of one thing we may feel assured, that in spite of the 
drawbacks earlier mentioned, emigration, unproductiveness, con- 
servatism, this town from its settlement has ever been reaching 
for higher levels. Though the course has been slow, vet it has 
never retrograded. Perhaps the most comprehensive idea of ius 
growth may be gained from a brief survey of our Grand Lists. 
which are intact since 1787. Since it is impracticable to present 
each year in detail, the last centur}- has been divided in quarter 
sections. In 1800, then, the resources of the town were returned 
as follows (omitting many details) : 

183 Polls. 
9362 Acres of land. 

202 Oxen. 

572 Cows and other cattle. 

194 Horses. 
Total appraised value. $30,675.31. 



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177 



In the year 1825 the schedule summed up: 



1 681 


Polls .... 


$ 5-055-00 


ii38iii 


Acres, .... 


302,952.00 


1 1 16 


Xeat cattle. 


15,856.00 


in20 


Horses, .... 


4,169.00 


-M3 


Houses, .... 


102,036.00 


29 


Wag-ons and carriaq-es, 


813.00 


162 


Clocks, watches and timepieces, 


729.00 


5 


^lills 


3,300.00 


3 


Stores, . .• . . 


675.00 


I 


Distillery, 


75.00 


I 


Cardrno- mill, 


1,225.00 




Bank and turn])ike stock, . 


737.00 




Money at interest. 


1 1. 28 1. 00 




Sundries, 


307.00 



$449,210.00 



Sunnnary of the Grand List for 1850: 

254 Polls, 
1 1258 Acres, 

884 Xeat cattle, . 

201 Horses, 

272 Houses, 

223 W'ag'ons and carriages, 
29 Mills, stores and manufactories, 

626 Sheep and swine. 
Farming tools, 
9 Musical instruments, 

Plousehold furniture and libraries 
Bank stock, 

Investment in trade, etc., 
Aloney at interest and deposit. 
Other taxable properties, 



$ 2,540.00 

327,023.00 

16,227.00 

7,254.00 

120,425.00 

4,657.00 

7,137.00 

4,362.00 

4,186.00 

255-00 

13-323-00 

2,730.00 

11,195.00 

49,463.00 

17,330.00 



$588,107.00 



178 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



Summary of the Grand List for 1875: 

157 Polls ($1.00), .... $ 157-00 

138 " (military) ($2.00), . . 276.00 

1 1664 Acres, ..... 402,578.00 

722 Xeat cattle, ..... 19,064.00 

413 Horses, ..... 21,490.00 

372 Houses, ..... 261,645.00 

7 Stores, ..... 8,700.00 

15 Manufactories, . . . . 11,150.00 

163 Carriages, ..... 8,424.00 

346 Timepieces, ..... 1,875.00 

57 Musical instruments, . . . 2,388.00 

112 Dogs, ..... 116.00 

Stocks, all kinds, . . . 27,586.00 

Investments, trade and manufacture, 12,987.00 

Aloney at interest and deposit, . 16.031.00 

Other taxable properties and additions, 15,009.00 



$809,476.00 

In the year t90o"'" the following return was made by Lewis I. 
Fowler and Frederic E. Jacobs, Assessors : 

438 Dwelling houses, .... $339,985.00 

1 1904 Acres of land, .... 347,935.00 
28 Alills and manufactories with their 

investments, . . . 74,380.00 

490 Horses, ..... 18,335.00 

1263 Cattle, ..... 21,400.00 

Swine and poultry. . . . 635.00 

Farm utensils not exempted, . 75o.oo 

12 Gold watches (value over $50.00), 400.00 

66 Pianos and other musical instruments, 6,675.00 

218 Pleasure wagons and carriages, . 6,540.00 

Bank and insurance stock, . . 24,810.00 

8 Stores and investments, . . 13.400.00 

Money at interest, . . . 13,865.00 

Other taxable property, . . 1,937.00 



(115 taxable polls at $1.00 each). 



$871,047.00 



^^ In 1890 the total valuation was $702,840.00. 



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179 



It must be rememlxT-ecl that the foreg-oing- vahiations are not 
based on an absolute standard l)ut represent tlie judo-ments of 
the different l^oards of assessors. Something- hke a two-thirds 
appraisal of the actual value of the property is generally at- 
tempted in this town. 

lUit though there is apparently no bounds t(j history, there 
should be to the recital of its events. It has been the endeavor 
of the speaker to keep within local limits, reserving" f(jr others to 
recount the deeds of .State and nation. Much has been left 
unsaid of usage and custom, and perhaps much more ought to 
have been. An hour in which to review a centurx's work is an 
altog-ether too little point of time. 

If it be asked in closing-, what great events have been most 
far-reaching in their inliuence in this town, I answer unhesita- 
tingly, the great revivals of 1820-30, and the Civil \A'ar 1861-65. 
The former in the first half of the century set squarely on their 
feet a generation of young people, who made Jesus Christ the 
guide of their youth. From that day began flowing- a tide whose 
waves have lapped all our homes with water from the River of 
Life. The Civil Warin the latter half of the century also called 
a generation to its feet. There rose up those who made their 
Country their guiding star and counted their lives as nothing 
that freedom might live. From that hour the brotherhood of 
man took on a new^ meaning and the world went "marching on." 
So, then, with one generation for God, and one generation for 
Country, our children are inheritors by blood and record of the 
proudest birthright earth can bestow. The gray haired men of 
1865, and the grayer headed men of 1825, are here to-day wit- 
nesses to what God has wrought. They have foug-ht the fight, 
they have finished their course. Henceforth they commit to 
the keeping of these children a trust handed down for more than 
two hundred years from father to son, — the good name and the 
unsullied reputation of the town of Xorth Haven. 

It will be vain to forecast the future. "Whether there be 
prophecies they shall fail." It has been the unexpected that as- 
tonished the v.'orld in all ages, and it will be the unexpected which 
shall work the mighty changes of the hereafter. But for all this 
we are not here to surrender our conviction that the Xineteenth 



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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 



Century has been the Golden Age of the world ! We know it ! we 
helped make it ! Every century has said the same, and the say- 
ing has been true ! Whatever the conditions of life, whatever the 
level of civilization, man never stepped from one century into 
another without his loins being' better girded and his lamp 
brig-hter trimmed. This, this, is Evolution ! a law of God, un- 
erring as the course of a star — a law which will at last dissolve 
these elements and out of them evolve a "new heaven and a new 
earth" where men will dwell in peace and centuries pass un- 
heeded. 




riioto by Tlioi-pe. 



Con(;regational Church in 1895. 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINF/IEENTH CENTURY 



l8l 




Estate of Dennis Thorpe. 




y- 



The Eki Bkadi.ev Homestead. (Oldest House in the Town.) 



l82 



NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



THE COLLATION, 



The Collation as designed idv Air. William E. Dickerman, 
will he laid in Linsley's hall for the children, and in Memorial 
luill for the public at large. It is planned to provide for between 
two thousand and three thousand people. A substantial dinner 
will be furnished for a small compensation, it not being the in- 
tention of the committee to provide this meal entirel}' free. 
Further detail is necessarily omitted, as much modification of the 
present plans may take place. The following corps of assistants 
has been carefully selected and approved by the General Com- 
mittee : 



TABLE COMMITTEE. 



Mrs. D. T.. Clinton. 

Mrs. D. W. Patten. 

Mrs. N. H. :\larks, 

Mrs. Lucia B. Barnes, 

^Irs. George H. Cooper, 

Mrs. Hubert Potter. 

Mrs. L. Peet Tuttle. 

^Irs. R. J. Shepherd. 



]\Irs. John Hull. 

Mrs. Henrj' Buckingham. 

Mrs. Leonard Wooding, 

Miss Sarah Dickerman, 

Mrs. Marcus Marks. 

Mrs. Charles Dudley, 

Mrs. Frank L. Smith. 

Mrs. Ernest R. Brockett. 



SOLICITIXG COMMITTEE. 



IMrs. Payson B. Orcutt, 

Mrs. Andrew Clinton. 

Mrs. William Stevens, 

Mrs. Alex. Smith. 

■Mrs. Robert N. Barnes, 

:\Irs. Albert Brockett, 

Mrs. Henry Corf, 

Miss Janie Warner, 

Mrs. Theo. Eaton, 

Mrs. Louis R. Hemingway, 

'Sirs. Edgar Hemingway, 

Mrs. Clarence Frost, 

jNIrs. Ezra G. ]\Iunson, 

:\Irs. John H. Bhikeslee, 



Miss Clara Bradley. 
^Irs. William P. Leete, 
Airs. Julian W. Tuttle. 
}.lrs. Wilson Doolittle. 
Airs. Florence Baldwin, 
Miss Edith Smith, 
Miss Mary Eliot, 
Mrs. Joseph Pierpont, 
Miss Kate Smith, 
Mrs. Homer Cooper, 
Mrs. William B. Roberts, 
Airs. George B. Todd, 
Aliss Emma Brockett. 



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'83 



ASSISTANTS. 



M 


ss 


Lucy Bishop, 


M 


ss 


Genevieve Barnes, 


M 


ss 


Charlotte Barnes, 


M 


ss 


Genevieve Hemingway 


M 


ss 


Ina Tuttle, 


^I 


ss 


Anna Goodyear, 


^I 


ss 


Grace Smith, 


M 


rs. 


Arthur Thorpe, 


M 


ss 


Alice Stiles, 


M 


ss 


Leila Stiles, 


M 


ss 


Christiana Bruce, 


M 


ss 


Jennie Bruce, 


M 


ss 


Ruth Smith, 


M 


ss 


Bessie Fowler, 


u 


ss 


Ethel Redfield, 


M 


ss 


Anna Todd, 


M 


ss 


Lina Todd, 


M 


ss 


Maud Riker, 


M 


ss 


Bessie Clinton, 


M 


ss 


Cora Eaton, 


M 


ss 


Mabel Palmer, 


M 


ss 


Glenna Bigelow, 


M 


ss 


Eva Beach, 


M 


ss 


Bertha Talmadge, 


U 


ss 


Amanda Zuber, 


M 


ss 


Millie Cooper, 


U 


ss 


Mattie Schneider, 


M 


ss 


May Brockett, 


M 


iss 


Aurora Uhl, 


M] 


ss 


Flora Barnes, 


M 


ss 


Martha Smith, 


M 


ss 


Minnie Hull, 


M 


ss 


Ethel Goodyear, 


M 


ss 


Grace Morse, 


M 


ss 


Hattie Leete, 



Miss ]\Iabel Moulton, 
Miss Carrie Harris. 
Miss Bertha Barnard, 
Miss Ruby Blakeslee, 
Miss Grace Dickerman, 
Miss Lucy Blakeslee, 
Miss Eva Doolittle, 
Miss Anna Bannell, 
Miss Lucy ^lansfield, 
]\Iiss Janet Yale, 
Miss Carrie Roberts, 
Miss Eva Roberts, 
Miss ]\Iary Peterson, 
'Sir. Arthur Thorpe, 
^Ir. George E. Bassett. 
Mr. Benjamin Bassett, 
^[r. William ^Lirks, 
^Ir. E. Stiles Abel. 
Mr. William Todd. 
Lovell Clinton, 
Freddie Barnes, 
Walter Potter, 
Ross Judd, 
Herbert Nichols, 
Harold Dubois, 
Elihu Dickerman. 
Waldo Blakeslee, 
Herbert Carlson, 
Arthur Blakeslee, 
]Myron Brockett, 
Wilfred ^^lansfield, 
Harold Harrison, 
Bert. Kegwin, 
Ray Bannell. 



'^^^^f^<>\'^/ Walt^-^' '-"•: ..UfS"^:*: 




CENTURY SERMON, 

OR 

SKETCHES 

OF 

The History of the Eighteenth Century 

INTERSPERSED AND CLOSED WITH 

SERIOUS PRACTICAL REMARKS. 

DELIVERED AT NORTHTIAVEN, 
JANUARY 1, 1 80 1. 



BY BENJAMIN TRUMBULL, D. D. 

PASTOR 

Of the Church of Nivth-Havcu. 



new-haven: 



PRINTED BV READ AND MORSE. 



iSoi. 




The Rev. Benjamin Trumbull, D.D. 

Pastor Congregational Church 1760-1820. 
(See North Haven Annals, pages 184-222.) 



A 
A CENTURY SERMON. 



I. CHKONICLF.S, XXIX. 29, 30, AND PSALM LXXVII. II, 12. 

Now the atls of David the kiui^, first and last, behold thev are 
written in the book of Sanniel the seer, and in the hook of Nathan 
the prophet, and in the hook of Gad the seer, icifh all his rei^^n and 
his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over 
all the kingdoms of the countries. 

I 7vill remember the 7uorks of the Lord: siirelv I will remem- 
ber thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and 
talk of thy doings. 

[Note. — The first twenty pages of this discourse are 
omitted, as not being of special intei'est to the reader] 



Having given this general view of the principal events 
of the lall century, fuffer me to prefent you with a fketch 
of the hiftory of this fociety and town. 

The lands in the town were purchafed by the Rev. 
John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton Efq. in behalf of 
the firft planters of New Haven, of Momaugin facheni of 
Quinepiack, and Montowefe, fon of an Indian fachem at 
Mattabefeck, now Middletown. The agreement with the 
firft of these, was made on the 24th of November, 1638; in 
which he concedes all his right to all the lands, rivers, 
ponds, and trees within the utmoft limits of the faid Quine- 
piack, with all the liberties and appurtenances thereof, to 
the faid Davenport and Eaton, and the other EngliHi plant- 
ers of New Haven, their heirs and ailigns, for ever. The 
other agreement and purchafe was made December 11, 
1638, in which Montowefe confirms, in the fame ample 
manner, a tra6f principally north of the other, thirteen 
miles in breadth, extending eight miles eaft, toward Con- 
nec^ticut river, from the river Quinepiack, and five miles 
weft, towards Hudfon's river, and ten miles in length, 
north and fouth. Thefe two deeds conveyed a tract of 
country about eighteen miles in length, and thirteen in 
breadth, covering the whole tract within the towns of 
New Haven, Woodbridge, Hamden, Eall Haven and North 
Haven; the principal part of the towns of Wallingford and 
Chefliire, and of the parilli of Northford. By the terms of 
the agreements and purchafes, the Indians were to enjoy 
lands to plant on, upon the eaft fide of the river, upon the 



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tra6l fince called Eall Haven; they had alfo the right of 
hunting, fowling and fifliing upon the lands and rivers 
fecured to them. On their part, they bound themfelves 
not to injure nor affright the EngliHi, nor to enter into 
any combinations againll them. 

The lands having been thus purchafed, and Governor 
Eaton owning a large tract on the weft fide of the river, it 
feems, put one William Bradley, who had been an othcer 
in Cromwell's army, upon it, nearly an hundred and fifty 
years ago. He, I fuppofe, was the firll perfon who came 
into the town. Next to him, were Thomas and Nathaniel 
Yale, who, it feems, came on to the land about the year 
1660. In a deed of faid land, given b}' Theophilus and 
Hannah Eaton, heirs of Governor Eaton, to Thomas Yale, 
executed March 9, 1659, it appears that Thomas was then 
upon the land. About the year 1670, a confiderable num- 
ber of the inhabitants of New Haven moved to Walling- 
ford, and began the fettlement of that town, formerly called 
New Haven village. This encouraged the fettlement of 
North Haven, and Jonathan Tuttle, about the fame time, 
began a fettlement near the river, on the farm formerly 
owned by Deacon Ifaiah Tuttle, who was his grandfon. 
Nathaniel Thorpe, Ebenezer Blakilee, and John Humallon, 
foon after fettled on the eallern bank of the river near the 
centre of the town. Daniel and Thomas Barns, Thomas 
Jacobs, and Mofes Brockett, made fettlements near the 
river, on the eaft fide of it, about a mile north of the fouth 
line of the town. Thefe appear to have been fome of the 
firfl fettlers; and they began the fettlements in this fcat- 
tering manner. Next to thefe families, were Stephen and 
Mofes Clarke, Michael Todd, Ebenezer and Thomas Ives, 
James Bifliop, John Cooper, John Grannis, John Brockett, 
and Jofeph Ives. The two last of thefe, went firfl from 
New Haven to Wallingford, and afterwards moved into 
North Haven. Jofeph Ives built on the road, about twenty 
rods north of the houfe erected, at the corner, by Ifaac 
Thorpe. In this the people met for public worfliip, until 
they were able to build them a meeting houfe. Thefe were 
generally defcendants from the firil planters of New 
Haven. The names of a confiderable number of their 
ancellors are among the firfl freemen and church mem- 
bers, who entered into the remarkable agreement, and fub- 
fcribed the fundamental articles of government, adopted 
at Quinepiack, June 4, 1639=". 

The fettlement was very How, and it feems, that for 
nearly forty years, fome of the firfl. planters attended pub- 

* William Tuttle, John Cooper, William Thorpe, John Brockett, 
William Ives, and James Clarke, are expreffed by name. 



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lie worlliip, and buried their dead at New Haven. The 
women nfually went on foot to New Haven, on the Lord's 
day, attended two long exercifes, and returned. In some 
inllances they did this with a child in their arms*. The 
inhabitants were not made a diftinct ecclefiaflical fociety, 
until the fellions of the general affembly, in October 1716, 
when they were veiled with all the privileges of fuch a 
fociety. The honorable Nathan Gold, Efq, deputy governor, 
and the Rev. Samuel Andrews, then paftor of the church, 
at Milford, were appointed a committee to repair to North 
Haven, and to aUill the parifli m appointing a place in 
which to erecl: their meeting houfe, and to advife theni with 
refpect to the fettlement of an orthodox and worthy min- 
iller. The Rev. Mr. James Pierpont had given them the 
plat of ground, on which the meeting houfe now il.ands, 
upon condition, that the people woitld erect their houfe ot 
worfliip upon it. This was thankfully accepted. A houfe 
for public worlliip w^as erected about 1618; 38 or 40 by 28. 
The polls were of a proper height for good galleries. 

While the parilli were tranfacting thofe affairs, they 
had invited Mr. James Wetmore to fettle with them in the 
work of the gofpel miniftry. At the feflion of the general 
affembly, in Alay 1718, the affembly gave the inhabitants 
liberty to form into a church. And the November follow- 
ing Mr. Wetmore was ordained. 

At the time when the parilli was formed, the limits of 
it extended confiderably north and weft of the ground on 
which the meeting houfe in Mount Carmel has fmce been 
erected, and comprehended twelve families, which, before 
1 7 16, were fettled upon that tract. The whole number of 
families, at the time when they were made a parifli, was 
about forty. Mr. Wetmore was greatly efleemed and 
beloved by his people; but after he had laboured with them 
for nearly four years, he altered his fentiments, and in 
September 1722, declared for epifcopacyf. The conse- 

* The tradition is, that Mrs. Blakllee, the great grand mother of the 
prel'ent Captain Blakllee, would take her child in her arms, on fabbath 
day morning, travel to New Haven and hear Mr. Pierpont preach, and 
return again after meeting. The fame is reported concerning Mrs. 
Thorpe, the wife of Nathaniel Thorpe. The people who fettled this 
town were brought up in the llrict puritanic religion of thofe excellent 
men, Mr. Davenport and ^Ir. Pierpont, and were, numbers of them, 
truly of the excellent in the earth. 

■f One or two families embraced epifcopacy with Mr. Wetmore, 
which began the church in this town. In 1751, when Mr. Ichabod Camp 
went for orders for Wallingford and Middletown, there were two fub- 
fcribers for him at North Haven. He came back and officiated at Wal- 
lingford, Middletown and North Haven, until 1760, when he removed to 



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quence was, a difmilTion, foon after, from his paftoral rela- 
tion. He went to England and took orders, in 1723. He 
was rector of the church at Rye, where he finillied his 
courfe. May 14, 1760. He was educated at the collegiate 
fchool at Saybrook, where he received the degree of Bach- 
elor of Arts, in September, 1714. 

After a vacancy of a little more than two years, the 
Rev. Ifaac" Stiles fucceeded him in the paftoral office. He 
was ordained on the nth of November, 1724. He was 
graduated at Yale college, 1722, and died May 14, 1760, on the 
fame day, and nearly at the same hour, in which his pre- 
deceffor, Mr. Wetmore, died. He was well verfed in the 
fcriptures, had a natural gift of elocution, and was a zeal- 
ous, engaging preacner. 

The bereaved congregation, after they had heard fev- 
eral gentlemen, by the advice of the aflbciation, made 
application to me. Upon their invitation, I paid them a 
vifit, and preached to them, the firll time, on Lord's day, 
Auguft 31, 1760. After preaching with them a little more 
than two months, the church and fociety, with great 
unanimity, gave me a call to fettle with them, in the 
work of the miniftry. It appeared my duty to accept 
their invitation, and I was ordained to the palloral office, 
by the confociation of the pafLors and churches of the 
whole county, December 24, 1760. Through help obtained 
from God, I continue to this time. I am now just entering 
on the forty-firll year of my miniflry. My locks have 
whitened and my eyes grown dim in your fervice; but dur 
ing this long period, through the wonderful patience and 
goodnefs of the Great Father of mercies, 1 have never 
been unable to perform the public worHiip, on both parts 
of the day, but in one single inllance. I have been able 
to meet you at every lecture, at every funeral, and upon all 
occai"ions in which my minillerial fervice has been required. 
Within a little lefs than a century you have had three 
miniflers, two of whom have ferved you about feventy fix 
years. 

There have been in the church, ten deacons, David 
Yale and Samuel Ives, chofen 1718. Deacon Ives died 
November 25, 1726. Samuel Todd fucceeded him, chosen 

Virginia. The Rev. Mr. Punderfon vifited them frequently, the latter 
part of the fame time and for a year or two afterwards. In 1760 they 
built them a fmall houfe 40 by 30. From the year 1762, until about the 
year 1783, they were under the pafloral care of the Rev. Mr. Andrews, 
of Wallingford. The Rev. Mr. Hart preached to them for feveral years 
hnce, but they are now a pluralitj' under the charge of the Rev. Reuben 
Ives, of Chelliire, and have preaching once in three fabbaths. 



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about 1727. Moles Blakllee, about 172S, fucceeded Deacon 
Yale*. Deacon Blakllee removed to Northbury, now Ply- 
mouth, 1739, and Deacon Thomas Cooper fucceeded him, 
chofen 1740. Upon the deceafe of Deacon Todd, Ifaiah 
Tuttle was chofen Deacon, about the year i74it- The 
Deacons, by reafon of their advanced age, defiring affift- 
ance, JelTe Todd was chosen Deacon, December 24, 1772, 
and James Humafton, November 24, 1773. Upon the 
refignation of Deacon Humafton, Solomon Tuttle was 
chosen, November 2, 1780. Deacon Titus Todd was chofen 
March i, 1787, to fupply the vacancy made by the removal 
of his brother, JelTe Todd, to Springfield, in MalTachufetts. 

The firll military officers chosen and commiflioned in 
North Haven, were Capt. Jofeph Ives, Lieut. John Granis, 
and Enfign Samuel Ives. They received their commiflions 
at the fellion of the general alTembly, October, 17 18. 

Your ancellors were few in number, but you are now 
increafed to about fourteen hundred fouls. They were 
clothed and fed coarfely, and fared hardly; but you are 
generally drelTed with elegance, and have not only the 
conveniences, but many of the delicacies of life. They 
were compalTed with a wildernefs, with wild beafls and 
favage men J. But you dwell amid 11. cultivated and pleaf- 
ant fields, orchards and gardens, and have nothing to fear 
from either. In their times, the wavs were unoccupied, A 

D 



* Deacon Yale died 1730; and fome years before his death rehgned 
his office. 



f Deacon Ifaiah Tuttle died September 11, 1776, aged 72. Deacon 
Thomas Cooper died March 11, 17S4, aged So. 

:}: The Indians were fometimes very numerous in this place, and 
gave much alarm to the inhabitants, efpecially to the women and chil- 
dren. When the towns of New Haven and Guilford fettled, the Indians 
from both towns collected, principally to Branford and Eafl Haven. At 
Eaft Haven was the grand Indian burying place, to which the Indians, 
at times, had a kind of general refort. The Indians at RIattabefeck, 
were connected with the Indians in this part of the State, and the extent 
of the river into the Southern part of Farmington. and the line filhing 
and fowling upon it, formed a connexion with the Farmington Indians. 
The combination of thefe circumflances, fometimes filled the parifli with 
Indians. At particular times they feemed to fwarm upon the river, and 
the groves and fwamps appeared alive with them. Once after the fettle- 
ment commenced they made a grand pawaw, on the road between the 
corner of the Market place, and Mr. John Humafton's; people were in 
great fear that their fields of corn would be ruined by them; but by the 
influence of the chief fachem, they were reftrained from doing any 
damage. 



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folitary path through a dreary fwamp or wood, led to their 
humble cottages. But your roads are broad and fmooth. 
and your houfes are large and elegant. They had every 
thing to do, but their means were fmall. You have houfes 
builded, wells digged, gardens planted, orchards and trees 
of various fruit, prepared to your hands. They were under 
great diladvantages for fchooling their children, not only 
on account of their low circumftances, but of their dillance 
from each other, and of the danger of children's travel- 
ling fo far through groves and swamps; but you have 
diflinguifliing advantages to get wifdom yourfelves, and to 
fchool your children. Your advantages, in these refpects, 
are much greater now, than they were at the time of my 
fettlement with you. There was then but one fchool houfe 
within the limits of the parifli; Now you have eight fchool 
diflrids, and the fame number of fchool houfes, generally 
commodious and well built. Your progrefs in knowledge, 
civilization, agricultui-e, and manufactures, has been very 
confiderable. You have experienced no fuch diftreffmg, 
feafons of general ficknefs and mortality, as the inhabit- 
ants had been vifited with in former years. Your popula 
tion has been very great, though on the account of the 
numerous emigrations, and the fetting off of a large number 
of families to the parilh of Mount Carmel, you are not, 
perhaps, more numerous than you were in 1759*. In Octo- 
ber, 1786, you were made a diflinti town, and veiled with 
all the immunities of fuch a free corporation. You have a 
large and convenient house for the public worship^, an 
elegant fleeple, a large and excellent bell. You enjoy 
peace among yourfelves, and the bleffmgs of uncommon 
health pervade your habitations. Are not the lines fallen 
to us in pleafant places ? Have we not a goodly heritage ? 
What more is neceffary to complete our happinefs, than 
thankful and obedient hearts, rendering unto the Lord 
according to his benefits ? 

* Some time before my ordination, Mount Carmel was made a dif- 
tinct parifli, and between twenty and thirty families were taken off from 
this fociety; but they worfliipped with us until about the clofe of the 
year 1760. The church in Mount Carmel, was embodied January 26, 
1764, at which time about 18 members of the church in North Haven, by 
mutual confent, were embodied with that church. They communed 
with this church until that time, though they had been annexed to 
another fociety. 

About 150 families have emigrated from this town within the 40 
years of my miniftry, befides a great number of young people; but few 
have moved into it. Almoll all the inhabitants of the town are derived 
from the firfl planters. 

:{: It is 60 feet by 45 and h It was erected 1739, and finiflied in 
Augull 1 741. 



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I HAVE now only one great and lolemn event more, of 
the lall century and year, to lay before yon; that is the 
progrefs of death. A view of this is necelTary, that we 
may clofe the lafl, and begin the new year with proper 
views and exercifes, and that we may form jufl concep- 
tions with refpect to the century before us. 

EvKRv year is productive of events, folemn, vaft and 
wonderful. A century increafeth them an hundred fold. 
From the moll accurate bills of mortality, it appears, that 
half the human race, even in this healthful climate, die 
under tw^enty years of age: And it is computed, that, 
taking the world at large, one half die under fcventeen. 
Once in about twenty-feven years, it is fuppofed, that a 
number dies equal to the whole number of inhabitants 
upon the globe. Some ellimate this number at a thoufand 
millions — and that there die annually, about thiriy-feven 
millions — leven hundred and twelve thoufand every week 
— one hundred and one thoufand feven hundred and fifty 
daily — four thoufand two hundred and thirty-nme ever^^ 
hour — and about feventy every minute. Nine hundred and 
fifty thoufand millions is the lowell computation of the 
inhabitants of the earth. According to this eftimate, 
thirty five millions one hundred and eighty-five thoufands 
one hundred and eighty-five die every year — fix hundred 
feventy-fix thousand fix hundred and thirty-eight each 
week — every day, ninety-fix thoufand fix hundred and 
lixty-two — every hour, four thoufands and twenty-feven — 
and fixty-feven each paffmg minute. Wonderful, tremen- 
dous mortality!!! What an allonilliing current of fouls 
is rapidly borne on the tide of time, inceffantly fliooting 
into the ocean of eternity, and appearing before God, in 
judgment! 

If this reprefentation be jull, the earth changes the 
whole number of its inhabitants, at leall., three times and 
an half each century, Three thoufand three hundred and 
twenty-five millions have exchanged worlds the laft cen- 
tury. During this period, four kings and one queen have 
reigned on the throne of Great Britain. William and 
Mary, Queen Anne, George the firll and fecond, with all 
their courtiers, admirals, generals, and mighty men, reft 
together in the dull. The Louis's, their courts and mighty 
men are no more. Royalty has been abolished, conllitu- 
tions and tyrants, in quick fucceflion, have followed each 
other, and vaniflied away. Kingdoms and republics have 
been Ihaken and demolilhed, the face of Europe, and of the 
whole world hath been changed. 

If we come nearer home, and review America, New 
England, Connecticut, and our refpective towns, will not 

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the retrofpect be folemn, inllructive and affecting-? All 
the venerable fathers, who, at the commencement of the 
laft hundred years, conducled the affairs of church aud 
Rate, with their children, and mofl of their grand children, 
are j^one down to the lldes of the pit. Their wifdom, 
beauty, influence, and lives, have all been lod in the rav- 
ages of time. In this State, v.'hich was fo fniall at that 
period, there have died ten governors, with their councils 
and officers, nine prefidents or chief infltructors of college. 
The fellows who were their contemporaries, and the tutors 
who affifled them, generally are gone down to the congre- 
gation of the dead. About three hundred minifters, who 
llione as lights in this part of the firmament of the church, 
have been extinguidied, and new flars and conflellations 
have arifen, to illuminate her children, and guide them in 
their fucccffive generations, to virtue and glory. The nu- 
merous hearers, who once aflembled with thofe preachers 
of righteoufnefs, and hung upon their lips, have clofed 
their eyes with them in death, and fpread their graves 
around them. The paftors and the flocks have gone to 
judgment, and are reaping in different worlds, accord- 
ing to what they had fown. Your former pallors, their 
churches and congregations rell together in the places of 
burial. 



DuKiNG the forty years of my minillry, there have 
died out of the town 570 perfons; 484 from among the peo- 
ple of my paftoral charge; about 75 out of the epifcopalian 
fociety*, and ten or twelve from among the feparates and 
baptifls. I fuppofe, that the inhabitants of the whole town, 
upon an average, during the term of forty years, have been 
about 1,300, a little more than a thoufand have been under 
my paftoral care. The deaths and ages, among thefe, have 



* This confirts of 44 families. The firrt man in the fociet}- of this pro- 
feffion, was Mr. Ebenezer Blalvilee He went off from the church in 
North Haven with Mr. Wetmore. The church increafed confiderably, in 
nearly 40 years, by the population of his own family; fome families of 
the fame perfuafion moved into the parilh, and fome others joining them, 
from among the people in the fociety, towards the latter part of Mr. 
Stiles's miniftry, they, on the 24th of April, 1759. had attained to fuch 
numbers, that they, in a folemn manner, formed into church ftate, and 
for the firll; time chofe wardens. At the commencement of the laif cen- 
tury there were no fecT:aries in Conneclicut, and there was but one epif- 
copalian church in New England, which was in Bolfon. In 1707, a small 
epifcopalian church was eft ablilhed at Stratford. At the fame time, when 
Air. Wetmore declared for epifcopacv, Mr. Cutler, the reclor of College, 
and Mr. Johnfton, minifler at Well Haven, declared. They went to Eng- 
land and took orders, and reclor Cutler was fixed at Bofton, and Mr. John- 
fon at Stratford. Thefe gentlemen, with one or two more, who declared 
for epifcopacy, at, or about the fame time, were very much the fathers of 
the epifcopal church in New England. 



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been accurately kept. The deaths, upon an averaL^e, have 
been about twelve and one-tenth annually, a little more than 
one to an hundred. Of the 484, 79 have lived to 70 years of 
age and upwards. Thirty-feven lived to between 70 and 
80; thirt3'-five to between 80 and 90; and feven to 90, and 
between 90 and 100 years of age. About 16 out of an hun- 
dred have lived to 70 years and upwards; eight out of an 
hundred to more than 80; and feven of the 484 have lived 
to be 90; and between 90 and an hundred years of age. Of 
the feven lafl mentioned, one was 91, one 92, one 93, one 95, 
and the oldefl 99 and 8 months. This is the greatefl. 
degree of health and longevity, which, in modern times, I 
have known for fo long a period. Neverthelefs, how has 
the face of this alTembly been changed ? The fathers, where 
are the}'? And how are the heads of their children 
whitening with years ! Om\:^rin-/ atio/i passcfk away, and another 
generation conieth. 

What profitable reiieclions lliall we now make, on the 
view we have taken of our fubject, and of the year and 
century pall ? With what feelings and profpe6ts fhould we 
begin the new year, and the nineteenth centur}- ? The 
doclrine of divine providence, that the Lord governs uni 
verfally, uncontrolably, perfectly, and for ever, exhibits 
HIM as a proper and glorious object of our entire trufl, of 
our prayers and praifes. What encouragement is there to 
truil in, and pray to him, who governs all worlds, creatures 
and events, and performeth all things for his people?— 
What fupport and comfort mulT. it give to Zion and to all 
who fear the Lord, when the earth is removed, and the 
mountains carried into the mid ft of the fea, when the 
waters of it roar, and the mountains tremble at the fwell- 
ing of it, that he fits king for ever, and prefides in every 
ftorm ? How calming and consolatory to hear him Ipeak- 
ing, in the dark day, and amidft the raging tempeft, as he 
did to the affrighted difciples upon the fea of Galilee, // is 
/, be not afraid. 

This, at the fame time, lliould beget in us entire ac- 
quiefcence and fubmiffion, with refpect to all prefent and 
future circumftances, relating to ourfelves, the church of 
God, and all creatures and things. In view of the univer- 
fal and perfect government of the Most High; this Ihould 
be the language of our hearts, // is the Lord, let him do luhat 
seemeth him good. 

The univerfal dominion of God, teacheth us to acknowl- 
edge him in all the judgments and fearful defolations 
which have been, or are made in the earth, and in all the 
riches of goodnefs and mercy with which it is filled. It 



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leads lis to communion with him in all his providences, as 
well as ordinances: To know him by the judgments which 
he executeth, and to learn rig'hteoufnefs, while they are in 
the earth: To fee him in all his goodnefs, and to be led by 
it to repentance and thankfgiving. 

While we behold his mighty works, and confider the 
operation of his hands, how Ihould we adore his greatnefs, 
wifdom and power, and learn to fear him for ever? While 
we behold how he bringeth the princes to nothing, and 
maketh the judges of the earth as vanity; how he niaketh 
cities a ruinous heap, and plucketh up and planteth the 
nations at his pleafure; how fliould we tremble before 
him, and fly to his mercy in Christ Jesus? 

While we fee him, in his inflexible jullice and veracity, 
in all places and generations, executing that awful fen- 
tence, Dust ihou art, and unto dust shalt thou return, 
how fliould we learn, in this tremendous teftimony which 
he bears againll fm, how his foul abhors it? How inex- 
preflibly fliould we, and all men loathe and fear it ? How 
Ihould God's inflexibility in the execution of this fentence, 
ertablifh us, in the perfuafion, that he will execute all his 
threatenings; and, that though hand join in hand, the 
wicked fliall not be unpuniflied. 

As we fee him in pall ages, and in the prefent age, exe- 
cuting his threatenings, and fulfilling the promifes and 
predictions of his word, how fliould it confirm out faith in 
the fcriptures, our confidence in him, and affurance that he 
will accomplish all the good which he hath fpoken concern- 
ing Zion. 

How does our fubjecl teach us to give all glory to God, 
for the fignal deliverance which he hath granted to our 
fathers, and to us their pofterity ? For his complicated 
and mighty works in giving us this great and good land, 
in protecting his church here, in every emergency, and in 
the admirable increafe of it, the century pall ? With what 
venerable and exalted ideas, lliculd we adore his provi- 
dence in the American revolution, in the ellablifliment of 
our independence, and in our prefent peace, diftinguillied 
priviledges and growing profperity ? How gracious has he 
been to us, that while war hath hung out its bloody flag, 
and raged beyond all former example, in almofl every part 
of the world, we have enjoyed peace ? While the cities, 
kingdoms, wealth, commerce and refources of other coun- 
tries, are in a manner annihilated, their inhabitants llain, 
by millions, and their habitations and pleafant tracfts made 



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defolate, we have not only rebuilt the towns and cities, re- 
peopled and fertilized the tracts which war had ruined and 
depopulated, but we have extended our fettlements, in- 
creafed our numbers, navigation, commerce, fillieries, 
wealth and refources beyond all parallel. The tracts where 
war raged, where the clalliing and roar of arms, the thunder 
of cannon and noife of battle fliook all the adjacent country, 
where the wounded groaned, and the mighty fell, are now 
covered with plcafant villages, walks, and gardens, and fields 
wave with plenteous harvefls. There freemen lie down in 
quiet, and mothers hufli their numerous babes to reft in 
fafety, Extenfive regions, which for ages paft had been a 
dreary wildernefs, filled with the hideous bowlings of fav- 
age beafts and men, are now peopled with chriftians, and 
prayers and praifes are conftantly addreffed to the throne 
of heaven. Are thefe my brethren, the works of the 
Lord, and fliall not all America awake to praife him ? Can 
we contemplate, that according to the common rate of mor- 
tality, three or four minifters, and three or four thoufands 
of people, upon the loweft computation, die annuall}'' in 
this wState*, and yet, that not one governor nor magiftrate, 



* Life, in Connecticut, and New England in general, is one third, at 
leaft, nearly one half longer and better than it is in the world in general. 
According to the common ellimate, one half of mankind die under 17 
years of age, and in the populous cities and fome parts of the world under 
II years of age; but in the bill of mortality for this town, but two more 
than half have died under 20. In every thoufand people under 20, there- 
fore, 3000 years of life are gained. Among 125 000, 375,000 years are 
gained. Were all the people through this State as healthy as the people 
in North Haven have been for forty years paft, the bill of mortality for 
the whole State would be but about 3000. But the bills of mortality in 
the more populous towns and cities are greater; fo that upon the beft 
calculation which can be made, the annual bill, upon an average, is be- 
tween four and five thoufands. This is but about one half of the num- 
ber which die through the world, in general, according to the common 
eftimate. This is not owing wholly to the healthinefs of the climate, but 
to the manners and comfortable living of the people. In Great Britain 
and in other parts of the world, where the climates are as healthy as in 
New England, the bills of mortality are much greater. The luxury of 
the great and opulent, lliortens their lives, and renders their children 
lefs healthful and vigoroiis. The taking them off from the breafts of the 
mother, and putting them unnaturally to others, to fuckle and nurfe, is, 
doubtlefs, a further injury to life. The great poverty, low living, hard- 
Ihips, and vices of the people of the lower claffes in life, fliorten their 
days. But in New England, none are fo poor, or neceffarily fubjecl to 
fuch hardfliips as to fliorten their days. Their general temperance, 
regular and fober manner of living, their tender care and nurfing of their 
children, are, under God, the great means of their extraordinary popu- 
lation, health, and longevity. The fear of the Ldkd prolongeth days. 
Temperance, chaftity, a contented and quiet mind, and peaceful and 
righteous conducl:, a chearful confidence in Gun, and the reviving hope 
of his everlafting mercy, all unite their influence to fecure and promote 
the natural life and happinefs of m.in. Were there no world but this, 
the human race, wjuld. no doubt, be moft happy, in the belief and prac- 
tice of all things which Gud hath revealed or commanded. 



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not one member of congrefs, nor judge of our courts, has 
died the year pall, and but one minifter of the goipelf, and 
not be deeply ati'ected with the divine patience and good- 
nefs ? Are we ahve amidfl all the ravages of time and 
death, to celebrate the commencement of a New Year and 
Century; and is the voice of health and peace heard in 
our habitations, and fliall we not ferve the Lord with glad- 
nefs? Shall we not enter into his gates with thankfgiving, 
and into his courts with praife ? Should not every heart 
expand with gratitude, and every tongue fmg hallelujah? 
Shall we not, like the pfalmift, remember God's 7vonders of old, 
meditate of all Ids works, and talk of his doings 1 Shall not this 
be the univerfal fludy, Uliat shall I render unto the \^ov.T) for 
all his benefits ? 

While we weep over the graves of our ancellors, and 
contemplate the revolutions of time and ravages of death, 
fliall we not ferioully think of our own diffolution ? How 
foon time may be with us no more? Shall we not learn 
how frail we are ? How precious is every moment of time ? 
And how neceffary to prepare for death without delay ? Do 
we fee kings, coiinfellors and judges of the earth, the wife, 
the rtrong, the young and beautiful covered with dull and 
worms? Do we know that we fliall foon be like them, and 
fliall we not be clothed with humility? 

Now we have clofed another year and century, with 
what ferioufnefs fliould we reflect, that fuch an important 
portion of time, all its fabbaths and opportunities are pafl 
never to be recalled ? That time has borne us on fo much 
nearer to death, judgment, and our final doom ? How 
ferioully fliould every one enquire, am I prepared for thefe 
great events ? Do my preparations bear any proportion to 
the rapid advances I am making towards them ? What if 
this year fliould be my lafl ? What would be my condition ? 
What my company ? Where fliould I make my everlaflmg 
abode ? 

We are now advanced to a new year and century. The 
events of it will be vaft and momentous. Old kingdoms 
and flates will fmk, and new ones rife. Millions will die, 
and millions be born, and the whole earth be peopled with 
new inhabitants. vStates which are now fmall, may, by the 
clofe of the prefent century, out-number the greatefl king- 
doms in Europe. The inhabitants of the United States, at 
their ufual rate of population, will in an hundred years, 
amount to ninety-fix millions^. In the fame period, more 

f The Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, of New Milford, who died December 
9, iSoo, 111 the 79th year of his age. 

:]: On ruppolition that the inhabitants of the United States now 



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than twice tlie number of mankind now upon the face of 
the earth, will be fwept away by the hand of death. vSol- 
emn thought! All the intelligence, literature. wifdom,life 
and beauty, now upon earth will be no more! ! ! If Xerxes, 
when he took a view of his army of fevcnteen hundred 
thoufand men, from a lofty eminence, wept at the reflection, 
that in one age they would all be dead; how Hiould our 
hearts melt and our eyes run down with tears at the prof- 
peel before us ? In this we fee our own funerals, the deaths 
of our children, and of all our friends. 



From pafl and prefent appearances, and from a general 
view of the prophcies, the prefent century will be one of 
the moil eventful and interefting periods, in which God, in 
rapid fucceffion, will be carrying into execution his judg- 
ments againll his enemies, and effecting the great events 
preparatory to the commencement of a new, more pure, 
peaceful and glorious Hate of the church. 



With refpect to ourselves, we know that we Ihall never 
fee another century, we may not fee another year. We know 
not what a day, much lefs what a year may bring forth. 
From the profpecfl which has been exhibited, you perceive 
that thoufands will die in this State, before another year, 
and numbers among ourfelves. Some of us — who, and how 
many, God only knows, mull exchange worlds and go to 
judgment. With refpect to fuch as Ihall furvive, they may 
be called to lay their dearell enjoyments in the grave, or 
wounds, ficknefs, or misfortunes, wearifome nights, and 
days, and months of vanity may be appointed unto them. 
How highly, therefore, does it concern us all to begin the 
year with God; with an immediate preparation for the 
events of it, whatever they may be ? With what an entire 
fubmiffion to the divine will, with refpect to all the occur- 
rences of the year, and of time itfelf, fliould we enter 
upon fuch a period ? While we behold the rage of the 
wicked, the tumult and confufion of the nations, how the 
floods have lifted up themfelves, their voice and their 
waves, how Ihould we rejoice, that the Lord on high, is might- 
ier than the noise of many waters ; yea, than the mighty 7vaves of the 
sea I That he reigneth and will reign for ever ? That all the vast 

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amount to fix millions, and that they double once in 25 j-ears, they will, 
in 1S25, be 12 millions; in 1850, 24 millions; in 1S75. 48 millions; and, at 
the clofe of the prefent century, 96 millions. 



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concerns of the universe are in his Jiands, and that he u<iU ^a^overn 
them for his o%un glory, and the good of his holy kingdom ? 

As our conduct may have great influence on the count- 
lefs millions of thole who ihall be born, live and die after 
us, and on the prefent and future happinefs of our country, 
how pioully, righteoully, and circumfpectly (hould we live? 
What g-reat and united exertions Ihould be made for the 
inftruction, pious and good education of young people, and 
to make the generations to come, wife, ufeful and good ? 
With what pains, prayerfulnefs and perfeverance fliould all 
chriflians exert themfelves to diffufe chriflian knowledge, 
and, as far as poflible, to fpread the gofpel to the ends of 
the earth ? The honor of God, his love to men, the falva- 
tions he hath granted unto us and our fathers, the diftin- 
guifliing privileges, and countlefs bleffmgs we now enjoy, 
love to God, to our country, and to fuch an innumerable 
multitude of human beings, combine all their energies, and 
prefs us to thofe duties. 

We are now, probabl}'. under the pouring out of the laft 
part of the fixth vial. The fpirit of devils is, doubtlefs, 
gone forth, and is ■ftill going forth unto the kings of the 
earth, and to the whole world, to gather them unto the bat- 
tle of the great day of God Almighty. The battle is prob- 
ably began, and will flill be fought with greater fury and 
wider deflruction. The ten kings will dellroy the Romifli 
anti-chrifl, burn her with fire, and then, according to the 
prophecies, go into perdition themfelves. The Turkifli em- 
pire the other great oppofer of God, and perfecutor of the 
faints, will fall with the harlot of Babylon. The judgments 
of God in the centur}' pall, and at prefent, are remarkably 
upon it, and it is not Icfs rapidly declining than the ])apal 
interefl. Conllantinople has been eighteen times on fire, the 
lall century, in wiiich, more than 120,000 thoufand houfes, 
befides other buildings, were burnt, with 8000 inhabitants. 
In 1750, it was vifitcd with the plague, in which it lofl 7000 
people. The next year it was almoll deftroyed by an earth- 
quake, in which 3000 more periHied. Other principal cities 
and extenlive countries have been overthrown, and in a 
manner ruined, by earthcjuakes*. The plague at feveral 

* Augufl 22, 1752, the cit}' of Adrianople, the fecond in opulence and 
population, in the empire, was. the greatell part of it, deftroyed by an 
earthquake. September 2. 1754, Grand Cairo had two thirds of its build- 
ings fliaken down, and 40000 people fwallowed up. In 1755, Fez, in 
iNIorocco, was half deftroyed by an earthquake, and 12 000 Arabs were 
buried in its ruins. A few years fince that part of the country was 
almoft defolated by the plague. Tippoo Saib and his people, lately con- 
quered by Great Britain, were Mahometans. Thefe judgments have all 
been executed upon people of that denomination. 



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times, in various parts of the empire, hath fwept away vafl 
numbers of the inhabitants. Ruliia has made important 
conquefls within it, and greatly impoveriflied and weak- 
ened the Turks. The French, in their invafion and conquefl 
of Egypt and the adjacent countries, have ilain a prodig- 
ious number of people, and feduced many others to rebel 
and take arms againll the empire. They are progreffmg in 
their conqueRs, and threaten it with deflrudtion. At the 
fame time, the rebellion and victories of Paffawan Oglou 
are of an afpecSl no lefs menacing. In this tumult of the 
nations and wreck of empires, it is reasonable to expe6t 
that the church will experience days of perplexity and 
danger. Fortitude, circumfpeftion, patience, zeal, prayer- 
fulnefs and felf-denial, will, therefore, be of the highefl 
neceffity. The language of the Saviour to his church, at 
this period, is, Behold I come as a thief : Blessed is he that watch- 
eth and kcepeth his garments, lest he zvalk naked, and they see his 
shame. 

To conclude, while I alk your acceptance of my grate- 
ful acknowledgments, for all the refpect, kindnefs, and fup- 
port which I have received from you, in the courfe of my 
miniftry, with great pafloral affecftion, and defire for your 
welfare, I wifli you a happy New Year. May it indeed, be 
a year of the richefl bleffmgs to you and your families. 
Efpecially, may it be a year of fpiritual quickening, peace 
and falvation to all this flock, to this town and State, to 
the United States, and the whole Ifrael of God. That we 
may enjoy the fmiles, and abide under the fliadow of the 
Almighty, let us remember his wonders of old. Let us meditate also 
of all his works, and talk of his doings. Let the end of years 
and centuries remind us of the end of time, and of all 
things; of the judgment of the great day, and the ineffa- 
ble fcenes of eternity: and let us all be prepared for them. 
JJ'hoso is wise, and will observe those things, even they shall under- 
stand the loving kindness of the Lord. 



AMEN. 



REPORT. 

To flic To-iCii of North Haven: 

Your coniniittee appointed at the annual town meetino" in 
1897 to "consider the advisabih'ty of recognizing- in a pnl)hc man- 
ner the arrival of the Twentieth Century." beg leave to report 
tliat they have attended to the duty assigned them, and oti'er this 
volume as evidence. 

Signed. 
Robert X. Bakxes. Jared B. Bassett, 

Robert O. Eatox, Frederic E. Jacobs, 

Sheldox B. Thorpe, Joseph Pierpoxt, 

George B. Todd. 



CONTENTS. 

Introduction, ... 

Town Officials, . . 

The Praise Service, ... 

Century Sermon. The Rev. William G. Lathrop. 

Membership. Congregational Church, . 

Y. P. S.C. E 

Ladies' Benevolent Society, 

King's Daughters, 
" " Happy Hour " Circle, 

Century Sermon. The Rev. Charles W. Jackson, 
^Membership. Union Baptist Church, 

Ladies' Aid Societ}-, 
" Workers' Missi(m Band, . 

Union Mission Chapel. Clintonville, 
Century Sermon The Rev. Louis A. Parson-, 
Communicants. St. John's (Episcopal) Church, 
Membership Ladies' Guild, ... 

Daughters of the King, 
" Brotherhood St. Andrew, 

Parishioners. St. ^Mary's Catholic Church, 
Building Statistics, .... 
The Bradley Library, 
Montowese Literary Society, , 
The W. C. T. U., 

O. U. A. M. 

A. O. U. W., 

Citizens' Benefit Association, . 

Patrons of Husbandry, 

F. & A. M., 



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Veteran Soldiers of the Civil War, 
Public Schools, .... 

Post Offices 

Twentieth Century Concert, 
California Gold Hunters, . 
Clover Dair}' Farm, . 
Village Improvement Association, 
Peter's Rock, .... 

Old Home Week. 
Address of Welcome. Hon. R. O. Eaton, 
Historical Address. Sheldon B. Thorpe, 
Collation, ....... 

Century Sermcn, Benjamin Trumbull D.D 



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PORTRAITS. 

Andrews, Dr. Judson B., 
Ausiin, Andrew F., 
Barnes, Herbert, 
E. Henry. 
R. N., . . 
Bassctt, Aaron, . 
Bidwell, Dr. E. H., 
Bigelovv, Hon. H. B.. 
Blakeslee, Evelyn, . . 
Henry M., 
Hobart, . . 
JohnH., . 
Bradley, Clara E , . . 
Frederic C, . 
Brockett, Charles A., . 
Ernest R., . 
Frederic H., 
Bruce, Lawrence, . . 
Burke, Michael E , 
Burke, Michael, . . . 
Clinton, Anson B., 
David L., 
Cooper, George H , 
Dickerman, William E. 
Eaton, Roberto., . 
Theophilus, 
Elliott, Whitney, . . 
Fowler, Henry B., . . 
Oswin H. D., 
" Lewis I , . 
Frost, Clarence N., 
Goodyear, E. D. S., . 

Robert B., 
Hall, Frank E , 
Harrison, Elizur C. , . 
Hemingway, Edgar A., 



i'.\GE Hemingway, L. R., 

99 Hyde, Albert A., . . . 

162 Jackson, The Rev. C. W , 

III Jacobs, Frederic E , . 

Ill Lathrop, The Rev. W. G. 

34 ■■ Mrs. W. G , . . 

34 Leete, William P., . . . 

Ill Linsley, Edward L., . 

I SC" " Romanta T. . 

73 " Solomon F. , . 

145 Lusk, The Rev. William, 

II Mansfield, Isaac E , . . 

124 Marks, Marcus D., 

97 " Nathan H., 

139 Merz, George J 

141 Patton, D. Walter, . . 
9 Parsons. The Rev. L. A., 

3 1 Pierpont. Joseph, . 

162 Potter, Hubert F., 

1(^3 Reynolds, Annie j\I., . 

153 " The Rev. James 

17 " John F., . . 

124 Roberts, William B 

124 Smith, H. P 

9 Stiles, Pres. Ezra, . 

3 " Frank L., 

147 " Frederic H., 

145 " Isaac L., . 

130 Thorpe, Arthur B., 

140 " Gardiner E. 
II " Sheldon B.. 

9 Todd, George B., . 

137 " Henry D., . 

120 Trumbull, The Rev. Benjamin 

142 Turner, Charles N. 
124 Tuttle, L. Peet, . 
142 Warner. E. C, . 



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[RESIDENCES. 

l-AGE 

Barnes, R. N S6 

Birthplace Governor l^igelow, 151 

Bishop, Mrs. Ann E., . . 1S4 

Bradley, Eri (homestead), . iSi 

F. C S9 

Brocksieper Sisters (homestead), 56 

Dickerman. William E., . . 136 

Eaton Brothers (homestead), . 52 

Gillette, Merton, 93 

Goodyear, E. D. S., ... 91 

Dr. R. I-i., . . . SS 

Hemingway, L. R., S5 

Hermitage 143 

Leete, William P 93 

Leete (old tavern), . . 172 

Linsley, E. L. (estate), ... So 

S. P., " ... 91 

R. T S7 

Parsonage. First Ecclesiasti- 
cal Society 3S 

Patton, D. W 134 

Pardee, Edwin H , .... 5.3 

Phelps, Penn, est. (demolished), 166 

Pierpont, Edwards (birthplace), 133 

" Joseph, 127 

Potter, Hubert F., 84 

Reynolds, Rev. W. T (estate), 68 

Roberts, William B., . . . . 95 

Shepherd, Mrs. Sarah, ... 94 

Smith, H. P., 31 

John (demolished), . . 166 

Stiles, Frank L., 92 

Thorpe, Dennis (estate), . . iSi 

Charles H, 87 

Sheldon B., . . . . go 

Tuttle, L. Peet, 36 



CHURCHES, ]-:TC. 

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Baptist Church, .... 50 

Catholic Church, Hamdcn, >i 

Clintonville Union Chapel, . . 59 
Congregational Church (second 

building), 154 

Congregational Church (third 

building) 20 

Congregational Church (inter'r) J5 

St. John's Church, .... 62 

Congregational Church (1S95), iSo 

VIEWS, ETC. 

STKKKT SCE.NES. 

Trolley car. IMontowese, . . 50 
" Cowies' Corner," .... 75 
Near iMansheld's bridge, . iiO 
N. Y., N. H. 6v: H. R R. cross- 
ing 169 

Broadway, . 205 

VIKWS. 

South half old Green, ... 32 
North half old Green and Cem- 
etery, 66 

Old Cemetery, 66 

Railroad and Highway bridge 

over Muddy River, .... 55 
Mill dam and scenery on the 

Muddy River, 60 

Present Cemetery, . . . . 106 

Memorial Hall, 96 

The Green, 77 

Ouinnipiac River, 12S 

Old Mill on Muddy River, . . 153 

Peter's Rock, 144 

Clover Dairy Farm, . . . . 135 

Trumbull Monument, . . . 160 









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